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,c5f189513e1f5f8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: John McCormick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada as a first language Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <01d59695$0$20632$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <01d77067$0$11497$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.212.104.239 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238015433 16324 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2009 21:10:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.212.104.239; posting-account=jVm7MAoAAABZ69ylB7L9PjZAVQg4j4fC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4310 Date: 2009-03-25T14:10:33-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 23, 7:08=A0am, Chris wrote: > Jacob, thanks for the reminder about John McCormick's course, I had read > =A0 his paper from a link on this group, I will try to get in touch with = him. Feel free to e-mail me: mccormick at cs.uni.edu > > For now I'm going to keep plugging away with ada. If anyone has any good > beginners books they can recommend, it would be greatly appreciated. If you really do mean beginner books, check out the two I wrote for the Freshman Intro to Computing and Data Structures courses. Programming and Problem Solving With Ada 95 by Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, and John W. McCormick Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2nd edition (March 1, 2000) ISBN-10: 0763707929 Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object-Oriented Approach by Nell B. Dale and John W. McCormick Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2nd edition (August 1, 2006) ISBN-10: 0763737941 John