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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1cabe8166ddcbb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-24 14:52:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Michal Nowak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ? Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:01:52 +0100 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <1fsh0vss3dblbs9hm21vendb9arhvvrk90@4ax.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1040770322 94894 137.194.161.2 (24 Dec 2002 22:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: In-reply-to: <1fsh0vss3dblbs9hm21vendb9arhvvrk90@4ax.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (3) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: vinnie@inetia.pl List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32287 Date: 2002-12-25T00:01:52+01:00 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- * ___ * _' ' * ` * ` * ' . -- / _ \ ' * | | * * * ~*~ -- | |_| | ___| | * _____ ` * ` * * ` i/:\i -- | _ *| | __ | | __' | * i/`:'\i -- |_| |_| |____*|_ |_____|_ Christmas with Ada: ` i/`':`'\i -- * ' http://www.autopen.com/OTANBAUM.shtml '^^^I^^^' -- -----------------------------------------------------------------