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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,595c75298fbdce96 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Aunit helpful? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <85be47b1-4039-4e5a-82dc-0dd5cc334da3@z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> References: <8a1e58c0-2330-4475-8013-97df103dd85e@o19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <8bb67638-e3c0-449c-bed7-a7f24e453ae0@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <6731bc61-4cd5-4154-8de6-0bdaeb81cc84@g33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.11.22.91 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282060313 22473 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2010 15:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.11.22.91; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13460 Date: 2010-08-17T08:51:53-07:00 List-Id: On Aug 12, 5:04=A0pm, John McCormick 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