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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada?
Date: 12 Feb 2001 12:43:40 -0500
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"Jeffrey D. Cherry" <jdcherry@utech.net> writes:

> As a part-time instructor, I teach Ada (and other languages) at the local 
> community college for both CS1 and CS2 courses.  My syllabus for each of 
> the Ada courses strongly recommends that students check out Ada resources 
> on the Internet, starting with AdaPower and CLA.  The one thing I restrict 
> students from doing is asking for help on their homework in CLA.  That's 
> my job.  The other computer science instructor has a similar policy and
> even assigns homework requiring students to summarize a recent Internet 
> article, discussion thread, etc. 
> 
> <snip lots of good stuff>

As an Ada enthusiast, but more importantly as a software engineer who
would like to work with well trained software engineers, I thank you
for your efforts. 

Keep up the good work; the world will be a better place for it! 

> -- 
> Regards,
> Jeffrey D. Cherry
> Senior IV&V Analyst
> Logicon Operations and Services
> Logicon Inc.
> a Northrop Grumman company

-- 
-- Stephen Leake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.