Re: Please Help.

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>]

"Fine, this is perfectly reasonable, but it is about specific Ada features,
 and is thus on the general scale of what one tries to teach, not particularly
 important.
 
 I cannot over-emphasize the importance of teaching early on the principles
 of abstraction, separation of spec and implementation, and incremental
 design. These are not easy subjects to teach (whereas teaching technical
 gizmos in any language is by comparison a relatively easy task). You can
 turn this around by the way, it is easy to learn technical gizmos, it is
 MUCH harder to learn what abstraction is about."


Ah, i guess that ~3 weeks on different list representations with an
examination of linked lists implemented in arrays (2 weeks), only then
followed by the dynamic memory gizmo, is the right way to go :-).


Dale