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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Video Course Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:42:57 +0100 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87r3t2qghq.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <7ffd1bf0-b815-474d-a4f2-cf471db0be37@googlegroups.com> <3a73a17d-2c37-47d2-9049-522632c24c15@googlegroups.com> <2a87cf3b-8621-4f5e-89a5-be4045eba583@googlegroups.com> <84f081dc-3d9d-4229-9b83-82854621e8de@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.56.10.50.mobile.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1425656579 22621 109.56.10.50 (6 Mar 2015 15:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:42:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:X8iWE051bjL+2SCV7i9TYpk2mZ0= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25125 Date: 2015-03-06T16:42:57+01:00 List-Id: David Botton writes: > That goes back to an early post I made, does any one have a complete > course in Video of programming in Ada we could post up? There is , but it doesn't work with my browser, so I can't tell you how good/complete it is. > If not perhaps a few of us could team up and do different sections? > Any takers? I think it is interesting to consider. But I'm not certain of the value of video recorded lectures. There is no more interaction between the lecturer and the students than in a book, and it is my impression that it takes at least as much work as writing a decent text for the same content. What would the benefits be? How would we give the students the interaction needed to make it any different from just telling them to read a good book and solve the exercises in it? Doing it as a distributed project would also pose challenges of its own. I'm not certain we all agree how such a course should be structured. But if we can find a way, then I'm certainly willing to supply a few lectures. Greetings, Jacob -- "I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation." -- Larry Wall