Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?

[Stefan Lucks <lucks@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> I have the luxury of teaching a course next semester that can be about
> anything I want. It's a course on "special topics" and the content is at
> the discretion of the instructor.

I had the luxury of doing something similar in the previous semester to a 
similar group of students. (I.e., having some experience in programming in 
either Java or C.) I had two hours of teaching a week, plus two hours 
every second week for a tutorial, plus some time for a final 
"mini-project".

After the exams, I asked the students for their favourite topic during 
that course. To my surprise, the topic the majority liked most was 
parallel programming (or "Ada tasks").

You can find some information about the course, including my slides (in 
German, alas), on the following web page (sorry for the length URL):

http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/mediensicherheit/teaching/software-entwicklung-fuer-sichere-verteilte-systeme.html

> 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.

Apart from the development environment (I think, all the students used 
GPS), I used the "tg test generator"

   http://www.free-software-consulting.com/projects/tg/index.html

for the introduction to systematic black-box testing.

It would be very interesting for me to hear what topics you choose and 
what your experiences where ...




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