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=1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FILL_THIS_FORM, FILL_THIS_FORM_LOAN,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,d063e947f9a4efed,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107e1d,public X-Google-Thread: 107324,d063e947f9a4efed,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107324,public X-Google-Thread: 111c4c,d063e947f9a4efed,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111c4c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d063e947f9a4efed,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-21 13:30:49 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsfeeds.belnet.be!naxos.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp,nl.comp.programmeren Subject: Learn Ada! - Free Ada-Belgium course starts Jan 24 Date: 21 Jan 2001 22:30:45 +0100 Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: <94fke5$k9f$1@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 980112648 13985 134.58.127.12 (21 Jan 2001 21:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Summary: Everyone interested is welcome Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4278 fr.comp.lang.ada:469 be.comp:12846 nl.comp.programmeren:6710 Date: 2001-01-21T22:30:45+01:00 List-Id: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Participation Learn Ada! Ada-Belgium presents a free course January-March 2001 U.L.B., Brussels, Belgium Bi-weekly on Wednesday evening Starting January 24, 2001 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Modern society is becoming very dependent upon software. Our transport systems, financial systems, medical systems and defense systems all depend to a very large degree upon software. As a consequence the safety of many human lives and much property now depends upon the reliable functioning of software. Moreover, the fall in the cost of hardware has now made possible the development of large software systems. Ada is a programming language of special value in the development of large programs which must work reliably. [...] Ada is a modern programming language suitable for those application areas which benefit from the discipline of organized development, that is, Software Engineering; it is a general purpose language with special applicability to real-time and embedded systems. [...] Although Ada was originally designed to provide a single flexible yet portable language for real-time embedded systems to meet the needs of the US DoD, its domain of application has expanded to include many other areas, such as large-scale information systems, distributed systems, scientific computation, and systems programming. Furthermore, its user base has expanded to include all major defense agencies of the Western world, the whole of the aerospace community and increasingly many areas in civil and private sectors such as telecommunications, process control and monitoring systems. Indeed, the expansion in the civil sector is such that civil applications now generate the dominant revenues of many vendors. (from "Ada 95 Rationale: The Language, The Standard Libraries", John Barnes (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1247, Springer-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-540-63143-7) 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. Early 2001, Ada-Belgium will run a course teaching Ada 95, at the premises of the U.L.B. in Brussels, bi-weekly on Wednesday evenings starting on January 24, 2001. This is an updated re-run of the highly successful Ada course organized in the fall of 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Highlights ---------- * 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 mainly 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. Everyone interested is welcome. More information is available below and via the Ada Course Home Page via URL http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html Here you will find info on: * the full program, * abstracts of the modules, * free Ada CD-ROMs for Ada-Belgium members, * documentation that will be handed out, * the location of the course, * registration, * the course secretariat, and * acknowledgements, * a course registration form, * an Ada-Belgium membership application form. This free Ada course is an opportunity not to be missed! Do not delay to register! Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels. Dirk Craeynest Ada-Belgium Board ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program ------- Schedule: Wed 24 Jan 2001 - Introduction to Ada - part 1 Wed 7 Feb 2001 - Introduction to Ada - part 2 Wed 21 Feb 2001 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 1 Wed 7 Mar 2001 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 2 Wed 21 Mar 2001 - Parallel Programming in Ada Wed 28 Mar 2001 - Distributed Programming in Ada more sessions might be scheduled. Note: during the week of 14-18 May, 2001, Ada-Belgium co-organizes the 6th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2001, in Leuven. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts --------- * "Introduction to Ada" Raymond Devillers, U.L.B., Bruxelles (replaces Marc Gobin, Royal Military Academy, Brussel) (2 sessions; abstract provided by the author) The introductory course will cover most of the core language, except for the material covered in the subsequent modules, such as object oriented features and tasking. The course will essentially be taught as a sequence of simple programs showing common aspects of programming in Ada. We will first walk to the simple predefined types and see how declarations are controlled. The power of Ada conditional statements and loop statements will be illustrated. The introduction of new types and subtypes will be explained, including arrays, records and pointers. Procedures and functions will than be introduced, first embedded in the program itself and than defined outside a program ready to be used by as many programs as needed. This means the introduction of packages and exceptions. The power of generic units will be shown and we will discuss the input output possibilities of the predefined packages Ada.Text_Io, Ada.Sequential_Io and Ada.Direct_Io. References - John Barnes: "Programming in Ada95, 2nd edition" (Addison Wesley) - Michael Feldman: "Software Construction and Data structures with Ada95" (Addison Wesley) - Michael Feldman & Koffman: "Ada95, Problem solving and program design" (Addison Wesley) - Ada 95 Reference Manual (Springer Verlag) - Ada 95 Rationale (Springer Verlag) - Ada 95 Style Guide (Springer Verlag) * "Object-Oriented Programming in Ada" Luc Bernard, OFFIS nv/sa, Zaventem (2 sessions; abstract provided by the author) One of the major contributions of the 95 version of the Ada language is certainly the way it addresses Object-Oriented Design and Development. The two sessions will present how OO concepts have been added to the language on top of existing ones (types, derivations, etc...). No particular knowledge of OO is required to follow these sessions since the basic concepts will be briefly presented. * "Parallel Programming in Ada" Raymond Devillers, U.L.B., Bruxelles (1 session) Many more programmers are having to work in multi-threaded environments today: most modern operating systems support threads (or light-weight processes) to some extent. The problem with threads is that they are not standard and so are not portable. Every operating system has a differing set of application programmers' interfaces (APIs) and frequently differing scheduling and priority rules. Thread programming is also notoriously difficult to manage in C and difficult to encapsulate in C++. Neither C nor C++ provides any support for important issues in multi-threaded programming features such as re-entrant functions and interprocess communication (IPC). Unlike C++ Ada defines a model for concurrent programming as part of the language itself. Few other languages (Occam and Java are examples) provide language level concurrency; other languages (Modula-3) provide a concurrency model through the use of standard library abstractions. In Ada there are two base components: the task which encapsulates a concurrent process, and the protected type, which is a data structure that provides guarded access to its data. These features can be used to develop responsive, high-performance applications utilizing one of the few truly cross-platform models for concurrent processing. The real-time systems annex provides additional facilities for programming in either a hard or a soft real-time environment. The main thrust of this annex is to provide programmers of real-time systems with an environment which provides fixed, predictable scheduling of tasks and interrupts within an application. (from "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers", Simon Johnston, Addison Wesley Longman, 1997, ISBN 0-201-40363-3) * "Distributed Programming in Ada" Yolande Berbers, K.U.Leuven, Leuven (1 session) As presented at the Ada-Belgium'97 Seminar on Developing Distributed Applications, several different approaches are available. The most important ones are using CORBA or the Ada 95 distributed systems annex (or both). The Ada 95 programming language is a powerful and flexible language that provides a safe environment for creating reliable software. The OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a flexible environment for creating potentially distributed software components. The marriage of these two technologies results in a uniquely powerful environment for creating high performance, reliable, distributed software components. (from "Ada-Belgium'97 - Call for Participation", Ada-Belgium, 1997) Ada 95 is the first general-purpose language to provide a standard distributed programming paradigm. By combining the distributed and object-oriented features of Ada 95, it is possible to create an application where objects are physically distributed over a network of machines, without having to interface to any low-level communication layer. Likewise, by combining the distributed and real-time capabilities of Ada 95, it is possible to design applications which meet real-time constraints in a distributed environment. GNAT, and more specifically GLADE (GNAT Library for Ada Distributed Execution), is the first commercial implementation of the distributed Ada 95 programming model. This implementation allows a distributed application to run on a network of heterogeneous machines, to support different network protocols, and to provide replication and fault-tolerance. (from "GLADE - Distributed systems in Ada 95", ACT Europe, 1998) Contents of this session: - Strategies to program distributed applications - Ada 95 distributed system annex overview - Categorization pragmas: definitions and examples - GNATDIST: Configuration tool and language - GARLIC: PCS and its extended services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Ada CD-ROMs for Ada-Belgium members ---------------------------------------- Copies of the full Ada and Software Engineering CD-ROM set (version 1), provided by Ada-Belgium through an agreement with the Special Interest Group on Ada of the ACM (ACM SIGAda) and handed out at previous Seminars, will be freely distributed to direct Ada-Belgium members attending the course. This CD-ROM set of 4 discs includes a.o. ports to lots of platforms of the GNU Ada 95 compiler (GNAT), and Aonix' Ada 95 Compiler and Environment for MS Windows. More information on this Ada and Software Engineering CD-ROM set is available separately. Documentation ------------- We plan to provide copies of the presentations at each course session. In addition, we still have a small number of documentation sets of the Ada-Belgium'98 Seminar (theme "Concurrency & Real-Time") and the Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar (theme "Ada 95 Works!") for direct members not attending these seminars (as availability permits). These sets contain, a.o., printed proceedings with papers related to the presentations, copies of slides, and additional documents and papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Location -------- The following concerns the course modules, not the conference: * Place: Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Boulevard du Triomphe Campus de la Plaine 1050 Brussels * Room: "Salle des Professeurs", building NO, 9th level, room NO.9.06. * Time: 19:00 - 22:00 (including break) An access plan to the Campus de la Plaine of the U.L.B. is available via the Ada Course Web-pages. Parking facilities are at access no. 2 (parking Fraiteur, the closest) or no. 4 (parking UAE, usually has free space). You can check on-line how to get to Brussels and how to reach the V.U.B./U.L.B. depending on the means of transport you use. Registration ------------ Advance registration is prefered. Registration is free of charge. Please return the attached Registration Form as soon as possible. As mentioned above, for direct Ada-Belgium members registration includes the option to receive a free copy of the full 4-disc Ada and Software Engineering CD-ROM set, containing a.o. several 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. A limited supply of additional material that was distributed at the Ada-Belgium'98 and '99 Seminars is also available for direct members on their request (see above and registration form). Others registering for (a) course module(s) can optionally become Ada-Belgium members, and hence also receive the free CD-ROMs and documentation. Course Secretariat ------------------ Ada-Belgium Secretariat Attn. Prof. R. Devillers c/o Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.) Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan Campus de la Plaine, CP 212, B-1050 Brussels Phone (32)-2-650.56.11, Fax (32)-2-650.56.09 E-mail: ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Acknowledgements We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our activities: ACT Europe, John Robinson & Associates, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa, Rational Software Corporation, Top Graph'X, and Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information on this and other Ada-Belgium events is available on the Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated regularly. Check out URL http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html -- cut here ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ----- Ada-Belgium Ada Course Registration ________________________________________________________________________ Please mail to or fax to -------------- --------- Ada-Belgium Secretariat + 32 (0)2 650.56.09 c/o Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Attn. Prof. R. 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I will attend the following sessions: (Please tick all that apply) ------------------------------------- ___ Wed 24 Jan 2001 - Introduction to Ada - part 1 ___ Wed 7 Feb 2001 - Introduction to Ada - part 2 ___ Wed 21 Feb 2001 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 1 ___ Wed 7 Mar 2001 - Object-Oriented Programming in Ada - part 2 ___ Wed 21 Mar 2001 - Parallel Programming in Ada ___ Wed 28 Mar 2001 - Distributed Programming in Ada (more sessions might be scheduled) Indication of interest (separate registration will be required later): ___ 14-18 May 2001 - 6th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2001, Leuven, Belgium Membership Status for 2001 (Please tick one item) -------------------------- ___ I am an individual Ada-Belgium member ___ I am appointed contact person of a corporate Ada-Belgium member ___ I want to register as Ada-Belgium member (please mail or fax an Ada-Belgium membership application form and pay the appropriate fee) ___ I am not, nor do I want to register as, Ada-Belgium member (and hence am NOT entitled to the free Ada CD-ROMs and documention sets) For Ada-Belgium Members Only (Please tick all that apply) ---------------------------- ___ I would like to receive a copy of the Ada and Software Engineering 2 CD-ROM base set (November 1998) ___ I would like to receive a copy of the Ada and Software Engineering 2 CD-ROM update 2 set (October 1999) ___ I would like to receive a copy of the documentation set of the Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar, theme "Ada 95 Works!" 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