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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
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For novice programmers have a look at my CS1 and CS2 books:

"Programming and Problem Solving with Ada" by Dale, Weems, and
McCormick.  Jones and Bartlett, 2000.  ISBN 0-7637-0792-9.

"Ada Plus Data Structures" by Dale and McCormick.  Jones and Bartlett,
2007.  ISBN 0-7637-3794-1.


John McCormick


On Mar 16, 2:38=A0am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
> I have tried to use Ada Distilled in a course, but it didn't work out
> as well as I had hoped. =A0Mostly because I wasn't teaching experienced
> programmers. =A0For inexperienced students, it isn't quite right.