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"Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> wrote in message 
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> course? I would like to talk about something that shows the language in
> a good light as well as captures student interest. Some kind of

An area that might capture students' interest is tasking.  Since the current 
trend is toward multi-core processors and Ada has tasking built into the 
language, it's a natural fit.

I'm not in academics, but one thing that I find that people with a 
C/C++/Java background have a hard time understanding is strong typing.  They 
"think" that C++ has strong typing, teach them what strong typing really is.

Regards,
Steve
(The Duck)

> introduction to a GUI library or network library might be good (the
> students have never done any GUI or network programming before). Also
> because I teach in a computer engineering curriculum, low level device
> control applications would be reasonable and appropriate as well.
>
> Anyway, I'm sure I can put something together. However, I thought I
> would ask here to see if anyone has some suggestions for libraries,
> tools, etc, that I might look at as I prepare materials for next semester.
>
> In case it matters, I'll be using the GNAT compiler.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter