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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,977301fa0e3c10ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) Subject: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Date: 1997/10/29 Message-ID: <637e34$5u6@sun04.tfh-berlin.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286426792 Organization: TFH-Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Now that's the way to promote a language! We are teaching Ada in all three computer-related degree programs as the first language. This semester we have more than 160 students beginning their studies. A colleague discovered that the company CCI in Meppen, Germany would send free copies of the Ada Tour 2.0 i (including the Lovelace tutorial, a collection of compilers and a pile of documentation) to anyone who asked. So we asked, and we promptly found big boxes of CDs waiting for us in the departmental offices. It was like Christmas, passing the CDs out in class! All those faces lit up - they were getting something for nothing! And the griping about us teaching a language not used in the Real World (tm) disappeared. This is exactly what needs to be done (and done fast) to attract young engineers to the language: give them a free taste of how good it is. Thanks to CCI for preparing this great CD! ----- Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff Technische Fachhochschule Berlin FB Informatik, Luxemburger Str. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany weberwu@tfh-berlin.de http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~weberwu/