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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80af38a7e8e4a5d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Ada95 From the Beginning by Jan Skansholm- Opinions Date: 1999/08/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 518932359 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <7qce75$558$1@apple.news.easynet.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 936032096 nnrp-07:5662 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:05:48 +0100, middleman wrote: >grasped the basic concepts of Ada95. The course textbook was "Ada95 From the >Beginning" by Jan Skansholm. I would now like to get a little bit deeper >into Ada but I have been finding this book rather confusing. It depends what you mean by confusing. It isn't a great teaching book, and definately not one that I'd reccomend for learning Ada '95 from. OTOH it's a fairly good book for learning to program from, for the same reasons that it isn't good for learning Ada. Mostly because it only goes so far, barely skimming a few parts of the language and ignores others (OO, concurrency, representation clauses) completely. I also thought that some of it was badly explained. I would have great difficulty reccomending it to anyone who knows the basics of programming already. >Should I stick with it or would I be better of looking for a different book? My personal favourite Ada text book is John English's "Ada '95: The Craft of Object Oriented Programming", but Cohen, and Mike Feldman's books are also good general text books. For pure reference stuff, I swear by my html-ised copy of the reference manual. If you're interested in concurrency, then "Concurrency in Ada" by Burns and Wellings is the only choice I'm aware of that goes into great detail, but fortunately it's a very good one. It does assume a certain level of knowledge about the rest of the language. - Aidan -- Gimme money, gimme sex, gimme UNIX and root access. http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/