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,e2bc6b776e88d543 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!a5g2000vbs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: i need help please Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:42:54 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <7045130f-a872-4e04-8928-a9e90c9b0e9b@o10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298284974 7126 127.0.0.1 (21 Feb 2011 10:42:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:42:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a5g2000vbs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18486 Date: 2011-02-21T02:42:54-08:00 List-Id: Hi plink, For a total beginner, my recommendation is "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" by John English. It is available online here[1]; there are several other books[2]. In your first reading, you can skip the part about tasking; instead, you should then learn about the standard Ada.Containers that were added in Ada 2005; the Ada 2005 Rationale[3] contains a good introduction to them in Chapter 8. [1] http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ [2] http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/ [3] http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/html/Rat-TOC.html As for getting a compiler and development environment for your computer, see the extensive list[4] in the Ada Programming wikibook[5]: [4] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing [5] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming I realize this is a lot of material; hopefully this is all you will need to learn the basics of language. Feel free to come back here on comp.lang.ada if you have any more questions. Hope this helps -- Ludovic Brenta.