Re: Games? A Newbie question

["Liddle Feesh" <no_see_reply_address@spam.com>]

"Michal Nowak" wrote:
> >I'm a newbie. This book is in front of me now. It's not the easiest to
> >follow. It's neither a "Code Intensive Reference Manual" nor a
"Tutorial".
> >Sort of in limbo inbetween with that nasty "Courier" font for program
> >listings - you know the type.
>
> Notice, that I wrote that it is "encyclopedic knowledge". Hmm, even
> that English is not my native language I found it quite easy to read
> and understand.
>
> From preface: "Ada as a Second Language is at once a tutorial to Ada
> and a complete refernce." For me it is complete refernce. Is it a
> tutorial? Hmm, yes, maybe not giving you quick start into Ada, like
> "Lovelace tutorial" by David Wheeler or mentioned earlier John English'
> book, but giving more detailed knowledge.

I see everyone raves over this book! Must be >something< special in it. It's
been taken out a lot - and is reserved too.

> I agree, that the style in which it is written is rather formal and
> different from direct one, like in "Ada 95 - craft of object oriented
> programming". But it is also much easier to read than Reference Manual
> (which is not tutorial, but serves well as additional reference).

RM is useful. That's what we were presented with on our course - together
with the spec and told to 'get on with it'.

> And, the title "Ada - *as a second languge*" assumes, that you are
> familiar and fluent with programming in one of other languages
> (COBOL, C++, Fortran, Pascal).

> Hey, but don't give up, there are lots of other books on Ada,
> I hope you should have access to them in libraries.

Over Christmas and the New Year? No way! Everywhere is closed and/or out of
books/lending.


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