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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef3ad775ef4b0b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!c9e1c1fe!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students References: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <6gj2s5-0f9.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:15:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.181.45.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1223601304 71.181.45.230 (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:15:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:15:04 EDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8040 Date: 2008-10-10T01:15:04+00:00 List-Id: amado.alves@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Fellow Adaists: > > I have been blessed with the oportunity to teach Ada to 1st year > students of a licenciate programme of informatics engineering at > Universidade Lus�fona do Porto. > > I seek advice from the vast wisdom in this forum, on: > > (1) Textbooks. In Portuguese (Brazilian translation fine) or English. > Must be introductory, i.e. for students sans prior knowledge of > programming in any language. Should be small or cheap (or both). The > vendor should be prompt. > Try looking at this book http://www.amazon.com/PLUS-DATA-STRUCTURES-Nell-Dale/dp/0763737941 It tends to be geared more toward a beginner student than some of the other books that were suggested.