Re: Ada in colleges and universities.

[Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de>]

Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:

> But there's no Ada being taught in Europe either.

I don't know whether it's comparable at all, but we at university
don't care that much what is "used in the wild". We have no tuition fees.
Every time industry asks for teaching something they need we tell
them: "ok, pay us and we'll train our students for you. Otherwise shut up."

When you start studying CS you'll have the first programming-course.
You can't call it course because nothing is taught. There are some
tutorials for beginners but usually you'll receive your weekly jobs
to be done, you'll do them and mail the results.

The language used for that is Modula3. Reason: probably noone
has used Modula3 before, thus giving equal chances to everyone.

In addition, functional programming, some ASM and Java is taught
but not programmed.

One year later you'll have to do the second programming-course,
covering Ada95 and Java.

For "computer architecture & design" you'll do VHDL and later SystemC,
but also ASM for RISCs.

The lessons tackling "programming languages" focuss on special
concepts used in different languages.

The courses for compiler construction uses both Ada and Java
for writing parsers, scanners and so on.

The two last always emphasize that there are so many good things
in Ada not reached by any other language. ;)

Some other courses uses C or C++, e.g. "parallel algorithmns" (MPI),
"image manipulation" or "pattern recognition".

So to say: we do it all.


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