Re: Ada on Raspberry Pi: new article in MagPi issue 8

["Rego, P." <pvrego@gmail.com>]

> Thanks, the idea was to get Ada into the minds of kids reading that magazine 
> as an additional language and to prove it can be used for beginners with no 
> programming experience whatsoever. 
> 
> I'm also trying to think of a good project to document in the next articles, I 
> have two ideas, but not sure about them. The aim would be to show the use of: 
> 1) packages 
> 2) possibly separates for platform dependencies 
> 3) GNAT project files & Makefiles 
> 4) Representation clauses for mapping to hardware or C API's 
> 5) Maybe tasking 
> 
> Any ideas? It has to have a cool factor. Mine are: 
> 1) ZX Spectrum emulator. or 
> 2) A language compiler going from source -> ELF/ARM binary. 

I think that sometimes it's a good incentive (for people to use a programming language) to have some device libraries implemented, so they can use the Ada features, but don't have to implement all of it from scratch. Maybe GPIO? A good play could be to demonstrate the tasking/rendevouz/semaphores concepts using leds through GPIO. 

Raspberry is a good portfolio for motivate more people to use Ada, and your articles follow it. Very good.