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Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:20:41 +0200
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many
> people attend formal training?

Ada was used for some subjects in the university I attended (RT systems,
concurrent programming). At that time (1994), the language for "Introduction
to programming" was Pascal (nowadays it's Ada).

So I learned what I needed to do the practicals of these subjects, but the core
learning was "at will" by the student, which frankly I don't remember how I
did; probably with the Barnes book and trial-and-error.

Then, I used it for my final project and I'm using it for my PhD in robotics.