From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,757d3d6a4830d6a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-24 19:27:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: crebralfix@angelfire.com (tom) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idea of a new Ada website. Date: 24 Aug 2003 19:27:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <626e8ae.0308241827.42bcabc2@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.10.225.77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061778459 4348 127.0.0.1 (25 Aug 2003 02:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Aug 2003 02:27:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41832 Date: 2003-08-25T02:27:39+00:00 List-Id: Hi all, I've just picked up Ada95 out of frustration and annoyance with C++. Since I'm totally new to Ada, I've been collecting code, tools and books for self-study. I have many, many links around the web and a website to aggregate a bunch of them would be nice. I have also encountered many dead links. The website should have a copy of the Ada Library Reference Manual for download. All links that I have found so far do not work, but the online version seems to work just fine. I really like the idea of a project page similar to Sourceforge. I'd also like to see 2 kinds of Ada forges: one for learning projects for noobs and one for serious stuff. IDEA: My goal is to become employed and work on an Ada project. Since I'm learning the language alone, having a mentor would be nice. A mentor system, similar to that of SAGE, would be a great help to anyone interested in Ada. Such a system would help Ada noobs by generating and maintaining interest as well as creating a sense of community. The mentors could assume responsibility for "grading" newbie answers to projects in the Ada forge noob section. Generally, I see the mentors looking over the noob's code and simply asking questions about it in order to get the noob to move their thoughts in the right direction. After a suitable number of iterations AND progress, a series of possible answers would then be made available to the noob by the mentor (by adding the noob's username to that problems's access list). You could probably set all this up on Sourceforge. Each project gets both a project site and a public web site. I'm sure Sourceforge would allow alot of the things you are talking about, especially since you're promoting the language and projects for it. SF also provides database and CVS access. Besides, Sourceforge has the bandwidth and is completely free. The downside is that you have to use Apache and not the Ada webserver :) I would be willing to assist with the website. I also like to write and would be willing to share my "discoveries" about Ada in the form of essays, tutorials and examples. --Tom