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,c53f5499f68e754b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Considering taking an ADA course at uni Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:55:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <57e2fa45142078b5f24fed4f75996ae0@news.teranews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 8pt84BitayIVdgk3k60IiA7bkleC2q5gKGS2sJmmp2S1BEA7Y= User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1911 Date: 2004-06-26T09:55:03+02:00 List-Id: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:31:54 +0000, Zork wrote: > Hi, im currently enrolled in a masters and noticed a "software engineering > and ADA" course available this coming semester. I actually didnt know > anything about ada up until a day ago when I noticed this course on offer. I > have previous experience in c++, fortran, and java. I am intending on doing > a project/thesis later on into the course on genetic algorithms. Would > anyone recommend this ada course? Is ada really that good? Will it help me > become a better programmer? (i know these are very general questions). The > course description is as follows: > > ------------ > This course introduces the programming language ADA. Advanced functions and > procedures. Parameter passing in, out, in out. Problem solving through > modularisation. ADA packages. The concept of information hiding. Top-down > and bottom-up development and testing. Private declarations. Problem solving > by abstraction. Private data types and user-defined operations. Problem > solving in real-time systems, tasks, inter-task communication, task > synchronisation. Assumed Knowledge: ACSC704 Introduction to Programming or > equivalent. The above looks a bit old-fashioned (Ada 83?). There are some very important features of Ada left: 1. OO, tagged types, class-wide types, primitive operations, class-wide ones. Ada's approach is quite different to C++, and more advanced, IMHO. 2. genericity, known in C++ as templates. 3. protected objects (a complementary to task rendevous view on synchronization). 4. various numeric types -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de