Re: Is Aunit helpful?

[Ada novice <ycalleecharan@gmx.com>]

On Aug 12, 5:04 pm, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote:
>But when the publisher wanted to
> shorten the text for the 2nd edition, they polled the schools using
> the book and found that none covered the numberics chapter.

Thanks. Yes I read about this in the beginning of your textbook. Maybe
you could consider to post that particular numerics chapter on your
website. Of course this could depend on getting the publisher's
consent also; It could however be an easier task since this chapter is
from an earlier edition of your book. I believe that many students who
learn Ada would land on your website at one point or another and
finding some notes devoted to numerics would definitely encourage the
use of Ada in scientific programming.

There are quite a few good books on Ada out there and I try to read
those that contain software engineering aspects as well. Using
packages, stubs, etc make the final "main" code less cluttered this
has helped me a lot in writing "correct" programs. It's unfortunate
that non CS students typically have no (good) knowledge of software
engineering features. In 2005 I started learning LaTeX and thought
that no other computer-related stuff would ever have such positive
impact again on my life. Now I realize that I was wrong; Ada is
bringing much into my life and I'm already starting to learn SPARK.

Cheers
YC