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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f40056d015b2ae33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!th!lucks From: Stefan Lucks Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:57:08 +0100 Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: References: <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: news.belwue.de 1194868630 10098 134.155.91.85 (12 Nov 2007 11:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.belwue.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:57:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18309 Date: 2007-11-12T12:57:08+01:00 List-Id: > 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) ------ I love the taste of Cryptanalysis in the morning! ------