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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-22 06:40:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:40:45 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1040568057 80.195.52.70 (Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:40:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:40:57 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32197 Date: 2002-12-22T14:40:45+00:00 List-Id: On 21/12/02 10:51, in article 5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com, "Wojtek Narczynski" wrote: > David, > > The advantage of starting in Ada is that you won't acquire bad habits. > This is really important. > The disadvantage is is that Ada is difficult. Some people may tell you > otherwise, they are geniuses creating software for devices that fly to > cosmos for a few years now. 400 not-especially-endowed-with-genius CS1 students have learned to program using Ada 95 at Glasgow University every year since 1996. > I suggest that you get a textbook, for example "Rendezvous With Ada > 95", and use it without skipping the excersises. Good advice. > For an ide you can use GRASP or AdaGIDE. Your compiler of choice is > GNAT, debugger GVD. Alternatively you can grab an excellent (really) > Integrated DE from Aonix, it has limitations that shouldn't be > important for learning. This assumes submission to the Wintel hegemony. If you have a decent Mac, MacOS X GNAT runs under Apple's Project Builder IDE. -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")