Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <3290C33B.1772@cse.eng.lmu.edu>,
Ray Toal  <rtoal@cse.eng.lmu.edu> wrote:

>I've never seen a student complain about formatting styles, but then
>I've only been teaching 11 years.

I get complaints, but not about reserved words. Some of my students -
the ones who did BASIC in high school - always moan about how I make
them do all that (gasp) indenting! I've not had a single student
complaint that I can recall about the reserved words. 

I always tell students they are welcome to develop their own styles, 
as long as they are consistent. Naturally, most of the real beginners
imitate the style they see, then in later courses they start feeling
their oats and develop their own. There's lots more variety in my
CS2 class; that's exactly as it should be.

As a reviewer of AQ&S, I'm certainly happy with it. I even provided
the dining phils code example there (with lower-case reserved words!).
But my first-year students have quite enough to read, and I think their
text should be enough to get through the course.

I make AQ&S available to more advanced students.

>By the way, I've said before, the content in Feldman's book is
>first-rate and it's the best book I've seen, and the non-standard
>formatting doesn't have to be a big deal at all.

Thank you, Ray!

Mike Feldman