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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!g_harrison From: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Some Ada Books....... Message-ID: <964.282ba00a@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 11 May 91 11:40:58 GMT References: <3183@sparko.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article <3183@sparko.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: > For informational purposes: several new CS1 and CS2-level books are in the > works for the upcoming academic year. One of them is a book I am just > completing, based on and inspired by the Elliot Koffman series. Elliot > and I believe we are doing justice to both Ada and CS1. The book will > be out in September; my mention of it here is not an ad, just another > data point for those contemplating a move to Ada in their curricula. > Of the current CS1 books, I prefer Skansholm to Volper/Katz. My problem (and my student's problem) with the books you mention that I have in my library (I don't have your D.S. text.) except for Cohen's text is that one wonders WHAT an Ada program really looks like. Too many texts parallel the LRM or are so weak that they are either too difficult or too elementary even for a CS1 course. I supplement our own Ada Programming course with about 50 of my own programs/packages/etc. and do not provide my students with a general IO package to hide text_io. This course parallels our CS2 course for about 2/3 of the semester - then we take off into generics and tasking. Most texts stress the mechanics of Ada or leave out a lot of the mechanics in favor of the "gee wiz" of Ada. I need a text that has both. -- George C. Harrison ----------------------- ----- Professor of Computer Science ----------------------- ----- Norfolk State University ----------------------- ----- 2401 Corprew Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia 23504 ----------------------- ----- INTERNET: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu ---------------------------------