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From: Harald Schmidt <harald.schmidt@anobject.net>
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Subject: Re: Best ada books?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:42:03 +0200
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On 5/30/03 2:43 AM, in article 3ED6A941.6BCEC8E4@adaworks.com, "Richard
Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote:

> "Luke A. Guest" wrote:
> 
>> nobody mentioned this book, it has been updated to Ada95 now, but I have
>> the Ada9X version and it is very good; I used it at uni.
>> 
>> Ada From the Beginning by Jan Skansholm
>> 
>> ISBN: 0-201-62448-6 Although this'll probably be different now.
> 
> Be careful of this.  It is certainly a good book, but it does contain
> some errors in the section on object-oriented programming.
> 
> Also, I will soon post an updated version of Ada Distilled free for
> downloading from AdaPower and AdaIC websites.  Hope to have
> it ready by mid-June.
> 
> Richard Riehle
> 
I use 

"Rendezvous with Ada95" by David J. Naiditch and
"Data Structures and Algorithms" by John Beidler.

Both are excellent.

"Ada Distilled" is very good as a first course.

Harald