Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Well, I suppose you could have a "Intro To Realtime Programming - 101" class
that used PCs/MS-DOS as the basis & let students work with things that have
some realtime requirement. But there should be a "Embedded System
Programming - 201(301? 401?)" course that involves a SBC with no OS and all
the typical problems that go with that. This is where I'd want to aim the
development kit. If all you want to do is teach some elements of realtime
systems, then you can get GNAT off-the-shelf and load it on a PC and just
design your course around it. If you want to teach "real" embedded
programming, you've got to have a "real" embedded machine, etc., and your
problem quickly becomes "no Ada for that setup." I was sort of shooting in
the direction of "What would it take to get an Ada Development Kit suitable
for that sort of course..."

MDC

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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote in message
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> The point is to phase things in. Having MSDOS onboard is nice when you
teach
> them how to handle interrupts, sampling instruments, snooping the network
> card, etc. After they master that is the time to go furter. Don't let them
> run into the wall at full speed. Let them learn a bit first, get some
> experience.