Hi Bleakcabal,

Have a look atmy website (http://www.adaworld.com) I have a learning center
that has tutorials AND freely available books in the PDF file format that
might be of interest to you.

-- 
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com


"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Bleakcabal wrote:
>
> > So I am basicly learning Ada of the net right now, I think I will buy
> > a book since I have problems with reading strings and all :) I think
> > the class book will never be ready for the end of the semester :)
>
> There are several good Ada books available on the web, including the Ada
> Reference Manual.  I'll let others recommend on-line and published
> textbooks, but the ARM can be found here:
> http://www.ada-auth.org/~acats/arm.html  It is a standard, not the best
> format for learning the language, but since it includes things like the
> standard libraries it allows you to do a quick lookup if you know that
> something is there, but can't remember the calling sequence.  In this
> particular case, Ada.Strings.Unbounded can help you with your problem.
> (If you use the GNAT compiler, it even has an Ada.Text_IO extention to
> read and write Unbounded_String variables.  See the GNAT documentation
> for that.)
>
> -- 
>                                                      Robert I. Eachus
>
> "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the
> goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical,
> down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or
> down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair
> of an old motorcycle."  -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
>