Re: Ada on Raspberry Pi: new article in MagPi issue 8

[tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 2 December 2012 17:19:56 UTC, Luke A. Guest  wrote:
> On 2012-12-02, Rego, P. <pvrego@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I had a very happy surprise today when I opened the MagPi issue 8 and found
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> > the Ada article "Beginning Ada" by Luke Guest. And it's the second part,
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> > started in issue 6 (which I had not read til today...). Congratulations!
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> Thanks, the idea was to get Ada into the minds of kids reading that magazine
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> as an additional language and to prove it can be used for beginners with no
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> programming experience whatsoever.
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> I'm also trying to think of a good project to document in the next articles, I
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> have two ideas, but not sure about them. The aim would be to show the use of:
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> 1) packages
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> 2) possibly separates for platform dependencies
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> 3) GNAT project files & Makefiles
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> 4) Representation clauses for mapping to hardware or C API's
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> 5) Maybe tasking
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> Any ideas? It has to have a cool factor. Mine are:
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> 1) ZX Spectrum emulator. or
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> 2) A language compiler going from source -> ELF/ARM binary.
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> Luke.

Well done Luke. One idea would be to show how programmers can work seperately to produce functional working programs through packages and abstraction etc.