From: Stefan Lucks <lucks@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:57:08 +0100
Date: 2007-11-12T12:57:08+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121255180.3690@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IbidnT7gyP70OKranZ2dnUVZ_vumnZ2d@comcast.com>
> 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.
Yes, that was my experience.
> 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.
My students where pretty good at catching this.
--
Stefan Lucks (moved to Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
<Stefan.Lucks at medien.uni-weimar.de>
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 16:09 Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-11 17:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-11-11 18:29 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-11 19:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-12 11:33 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 0:02 ` Ed Falis
2007-11-12 11:44 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 0:59 ` Steve
2007-11-12 4:29 ` wilson
2007-11-12 11:39 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 13:34 ` Brian Drummond
2007-11-13 3:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-13 13:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-11-13 13:53 ` Brian Drummond
2007-11-12 7:42 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 11:40 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 11:57 ` Stefan Lucks [this message]
2007-11-12 11:54 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-11-13 3:27 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 11:56 ` anon
2007-11-12 15:53 ` John McCormick
2007-11-12 16:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 16:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 17:38 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 18:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 17:45 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 20:45 ` Jerry Petrey
2007-11-13 3:33 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-13 5:17 ` jimmaureenrogers
2007-11-16 15:48 ` Marco
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