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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:33:12 -0800
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I made a survey of text books today at my university book store,
and I could not find a single book on Ada (nor on Fortran for that matter).

I remember many years ago that I saw one textbook that was in Ada for
a course in computer science area.

These are the computer languages books I've seen (all textbooks for
courses)

1) C/C++:
C FOR SCIENTISTS+ENGINEERS, ABSOLUTE C++, EBK ABSOLUTE C++,
DATA STRUCTURES+ALG.ANAL.IN C++

2) Perl: ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING WITH PERL

3) Matlab: few, here is one ENGINEERING COMPUTATION WITH MATLAB,

4) Python: PYTHON PROGRAMMING

I did not see a Java one at this school at this time, but I have seen
textbooks on Java before.

if students do not learn Ada at school, there is less chance
they will use.

It looks like C/C++ is still popular for teaching, I find this amazing :)

--Nasser