Re: has anyone ever used this book?

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
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> In article <tl6iu0c3v49b3b@corp.supernews.com>, "Beau" <beau@hiwaay.net>
writes:
> > Ada 95  Problem Solving and Program Design? I am using it in class and
we
> > are in ch 11. We have for a problem number 6. and I cannot understand
for
> > the life of me why we would need to construct an ADT for the bank
account
> > AND use the currency and Dates ADT packages. I am just asking for an
> > explanation respectively. thanks.
>
> Without even looking at the book, I would say that textbook-sized
> examples are supposed to be small, so to illustrate using one ADT
> within another one has to do that for cases that are possibly
> quite a bit smaller than one would encounter in the real world.
>

I don't know the book.
What I do know from personal experience with many students  is that quite a
few seem to graps the idea of an ADT, but fail to realize how to create
layered designs, and modularize their programs.
I always try to show examples like building set ADT from a list package,
using various layering techniques (composition, using inheritance etc.).

Ehud Lamm