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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b53fe26883a9a738 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Rich Maggio Subject: Re: Ada Book Date: 1997/04/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 238044171 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: i123.157.world2u.com References: <335E5351.15E2@dlep1.ti.com> X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate X-Trace: 862284510 11341 (None) [204.141.123.157] Organization: Rich Maggio Reply-To: maggior@world2u.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I would recommend Professor Feldman's book Problem Solving with Ada 95. I took a class last semester for which I needed to learn Ada, and learn it fast. I am a seasoned 'C' programmer, so the logic required to design a program was old hat for me - I needed something that explained the ways of Ada in a clear, concise manner. I found this book to be very helpful in that regard. I struggled with a book by John Barnes called Programming in Ada 95 first. This book is very good as well, but not for the beginner IMHO. After I had the concepts in Prof. Feldman's book under my belt, I could make sense of what the Barnes book had to offer. I found it frustrating understanding some of the basic paradigms in Ada's library, packages, etc. This book cleared a lot of that up for me. IMHO - Problem Solving with Ada 95 is a great book for someone either totally new to programming, someone totally new to Ada, or both. It is also chock full of working examples - something Barnes' book is missing. Plus, as a bonus, Feldman's book comes with a compiler. I had borrowed the book from my professor last semester, but I ordered my own copy recently when I discovered that it had the Object Ada compiler packaged with it. The point being I found it useful enough to have my own copy around for future reference. I hope this information helps. Rich Maggio Edgar Green wrote: > > I am looking for a simple strait forward book on Ada. I had a book on > C++ called Instant C++. I need a book like that one on Ada this book was > to the point short, lots of examples etc