Questions on new John McCormick book

Questions on new John McCormick book

[Marco]

"Chapter 2 of the book "Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time
Applications with Ada" by McCormick, Singhoff, and Hugues includes a
long section on low level programming with Ada.  It covers both memory
mapped and port I/O architectures.  We develop polling and interrupt
based device drivers.  Everything is done using high level Ada
abstractions for low level features.  It includes a small amount of
machine code insertion.  We just turned in the final page proofs and
expect to have hard oopy by April. "

1) Will this cover Ada 95 as well as 2005? 
2) Do you cover some non-Intel x86 HW?
3) Will it be sold in the USA?

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[John McCormick]

> 1) Will this cover Ada 95 as well as 2005?

Yes

> 2) Do you cover some non-Intel x86 HW?

Very little SPECIFIC hardware is covered. The only hardware specific
topic is an example of inserting x86 machine code.

> 3) Will it be sold in the USA?

Yes

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Martyn Pike]

Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Mark Lorenzen]

On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
> Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.

Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
Amazon's side?

- Mark L

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[KK6GM]

On Feb 8, 3:08 am, Mark Lorenzen <mark.loren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>
> > Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.
>
> Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
> someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
> Amazon's side?

Says "30 April 2011" under Product details

Interestingly, the price is $61 (38 GBP) vs $90 on the US Amazon.

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Shark8]

On Feb 8, 8:33 am, KK6GM <mjsi...@scriptoriumdesigns.com> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 3:08 am, Mark Lorenzen <mark.loren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>
> > > Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.
>
> > Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
> > someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
> > Amazon's side?
>
> Says "30 April 2011" under Product details
>
> Interestingly, the price is $61 (38 GBP) vs $90 on the US Amazon.

It's $70 from Barns & Noble.

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Martyn Pike]

On 2011-02-08 11:08:07 +0000, Mark Lorenzen said:

> On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>> Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.
> 
> Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
> someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
> Amazon's side?
> 
> - Mark L

Usually dispatched within 9 to 12 days does indeed imply it is released 
yet the 30th April date presents a contradiction.  I am gonna order it 
and see what happens !

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Martin]

On Feb 8, 11:08 am, Mark Lorenzen <mark.loren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>
> > Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.
>
> Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
> someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
> Amazon's side?
>
> - Mark L

I ordered it a couple of days ago...will let you know! :-)

-- Martin

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Martyn Pike]

On 2011-02-08 20:56:59 +0000, Martin said:

> On Feb 8, 11:08�am, Mark Lorenzen <mark.loren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 Feb., 19:19, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Definately looking forward to the publication of this title.
>> 
>> Me too. Amazon UK has it on sale (not pre-order) already now. Can
>> someone confirm that the book is available or is it an error on
>> Amazon's side?
>> 
>> - Mark L
> 
> I ordered it a couple of days ago...will let you know! :-)
> 
> -- Martin

John McCormick ( on another thread ) says they have only just handed 
the final proofs and hope to have hard copy in April.  I will be be 
interested to see what amazon say now !

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[John McCormick]

On Feb 9, 1:23 pm, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>
> John McCormick ( on another thread ) says they have only just handed
> the final proofs and hope to have hard copy in April.  I will be be
> interested to see what amazon say now !

Indeed!  If anyone finds a copy earlier they can let me know so I can
get one :)  I think that April is realistic.  I do appreciate all of
the excitment generated in this thread.  Frank, Jérôme, and I hope our
work justifies it. This semester is the second time students in my
real-time embedded systems class have used the manuscript.  The first
group did a good job telling me where we needed to improve our
explanations.  Authors learn a lot from novices.  The second group
hasn't made any suggestions (yet) so maybe we got it right.

John

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Bill Findlay]

On 09/02/2011 21:59, in article
98aaaef9-65b3-4738-afcb-2a39c53c0ea3@e9g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, "John
McCormick" <mccormick@cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> Indeed!  If anyone finds a copy earlier they can let me know so I can
> get one :)  I think that April is realistic.  I do appreciate all of
> the excitment generated in this thread.

I'm sure it's deserved.
Does the book cover any Ada 2012 innovations?

-- 
Bill Findlay
with blueyonder.co.uk;
use  surname & forename;

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[John McCormick]

On Feb 9, 5:19 pm, Bill Findlay <n...@findlayw.plus.com> wrote:
> Does the book cover any Ada 2012 innovations?

No.

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Bill Findlay]

On 10/02/2011 12:21, in article
61b482f2-7173-4071-83ec-05cb2a08d5ea@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com, "John
McCormick" <mccormick@cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 5:19�pm, Bill Findlay <n...@findlayw.plus.com> wrote:
>> Does the book cover any Ada 2012 innovations?
> 
> No.

So when's the 2nd edition coming out? 8-)

-- 
Bill Findlay
with blueyonder.co.uk;
use  surname & forename;

Re: Questions on new John McCormick book

[Shark8]

On Feb 9, 2:59 pm, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 1:23 pm, Martyn Pike <martyn at emconuk dot com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > John McCormick ( on another thread ) says they have only just handed
> > the final proofs and hope to have hard copy in April.  I will be be
> > interested to see what amazon say now !
>
> Indeed!  If anyone finds a copy earlier they can let me know so I can
> get one :)  I think that April is realistic.  I do appreciate all of
> the excitment generated in this thread.  Frank, Jérôme, and I hope our
> work justifies it. This semester is the second time students in my
> real-time embedded systems class have used the manuscript.  The first
> group did a good job telling me where we needed to improve our
> explanations.  Authors learn a lot from novices.  The second group
> hasn't made any suggestions (yet) so maybe we got it right.
>
> John

I'm looking forward to getting it; but I might not be able to when
it's
"hot off the presses."