Re: Ada for dummies needed.

[spammenot <"Simon(spammenot)"@skcs.co.uk>]

corlioni1976 wrote:
> "israel" <rambam@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>>"corlioni1976" <corlioni1976REMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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>>>I need to learn to program in ada language are there any dummies book or
>>>similar?
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>>Ada Lovelace tutorial (free)
>>http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.htm
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>>Here is another one which seems reasonable, if a bit verbose.
>>In addition, it is shareware.
>>http://www.infres.enst.fr/~pautet/Ada95/a95list.htm
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>>Also, your local university library should have a few books on Ada.
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>>BTW, why do you have to learn Ada ?
>>Is it a requirement for a course ?
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> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for your advise.
> 
> My manager at work wants me to learn Ada and has enrolled me in a 5 day
> training course to start in three months time.  The company will provide
> some books for me, but I need to determine which ones are good for beginner
> programmers.  Hence my original post.  As the company has offered to buy the
> books I dont really want to concentrate  on the free tutorials yet.
> 
> Many thank
> 
> 
> 


If on the other hand you aren't very experienced with programming then I 
would recommend "Programming and Problem solving with Ada 95" Dale, 
Weems, McCormick.

I prefer that to the John Barnes book personally.