Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ?

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 2002-12-24 at 15:56 faust wrote:

>My 12 year old wants to learn Ada 
>( He actually wanted to learn Java or Pascal but I convinced him that
>Ada is superior to both. )
>
>Could anyone recommend a suitable text ?
>(Preferably online. )

Well, I looked over tutorials, which that I downloaded since
I went into Ada. It may be hard to find something for kid
with no programming background at all. But kids are smart,
and get the knowledge fast. As I remember I was starting 
having only help files from Borland's Turbo Pascal compiler
at age about 13 years old. You (your child) may look at 
"Ada 95 problem solving and Program Design" by M.B. Feldman
and E.B.Koffman. It is written with easy language style, 
without additional formal wording. The sample programs are 
short and well described. I don't know if it available 
somewhere available on-line, but it is distributed with
ObjectAda compiler from Aonix. Free, special edition is
available for download at http://www.aonix.com/
As an additional book you may look at "Ada 95: The Craft of
Object-Oriented Programming" by John English, although
I think it is a bit more difficult than Feldman's. It
is available at http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/

Good luck and happy Ada programming,
   - Michal


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