Ada-Belgium's Ada course - Preliminary Program

Ada-Belgium's Ada course - Preliminary Program

[Dirk Craeynest]

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Ada-Belgium is a non-profit volunteer organization whose purpose is to
promote the use in Belgium of the Ada programming language, the first
ISO standardized object-oriented language.

Ada-Belgium will run a course this autumn teaching Ada 95.

The course will be modular: you may skip modules discussing subjects you
already know about without losing the thread of the course.
The first module will be an introduction to Ada for programmers in other
languages.  After this the modules will be of interest to both newcomers
to Ada and those already working in Ada 83 who wish to learn Ada 95.

The course will take the form of evening sessions every two weeks.
There will be small exercises during the evening sessions and larger
exercises which may be completed between sessions.  Ada compilers will
be available for the completion of these exercises.  The course will be
taught in English.

Preliminary schedule:

    * Wed 23 Sep 1998 - Introduction to Ada (83) - part 1
    * Wed  7 Oct 1998 - Introduction to Ada (83) - part 2

    * Wed 21 Oct 1998 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 1
    * Wed  4 Nov 1998 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 2

    * Wed 18 Nov 1998 - Parallel Programming in Ada

    * Fri  4 Dec 1998 - 8th Annual Ada-Belgium Seminar (tentative)
      (a full day event, with a.o. invited speakers and project
      presentations; theme: parallelism, tasking, real-time, etc.)

    * Wed 17 Dec 1998 - Distributed Programming in Ada (tentative)

    * more sessions will be scheduled in 1999

The following concerns the course modules, not the seminar:

* Place:
    Universite' Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
    Boulevard du Triomphe
    Campus de la Plaine
    1050 Brussels

* Time:
    19:00 - 22:00 (including break)

Advance registration will be prefered, but will also be possible "on the
spot".

For Ada-Belgium members, registration includes the option to receive a
free copy of the latest edition of the Walnut Creek double Ada CD-ROM
(April 1998), containing a.o. the current editions of two Ada 95
compilers: the public GNAT distribution from ACT, for lots of platforms,
and the ObjectAda Special Edition from Aonix, for Windows 95 and NT.

Others registering for (a) course module(s) can optionally become
Ada-Belgium members, and hence also receive the free CD-ROM.

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                  Ada-Belgium Meetings and Conferences:
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Feel free to forward this announcement.  More information will be
distributed later.

Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium Board - ada@belgium.eu.net

*** Ada's success is still one of the world's best-kept secrets.
*** We're doing what we can to help change that.

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