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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Textbooks (Was: Decline?)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:30:28 +0100
Date: 2008-03-14T10:30:28+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yge8x0l64az.fsf_-_@hugsarin.dmusyd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0803140856360.30889@medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de

Stefan.Lucks@medien.uni-weimar.de writes:

>> * John Barnes updated his huge Ada textbook for the new revision of the
>> language (and I believe that Burns/Welling did the same with their book).
>
> I can confirm that -- I recently received my copy of the revised 
> Burns/Wellings book.

I have used Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005", but I am not completely
happy with it as a textbook.  I think a part of the problem is in the
exercises.  It takes too many pages to get to some working (read:
compilable) examples.  In addition to this I have my students'
complaints that Barnes occassionally seems to be preaching rather than
teaching.  (This isn't something that bothers me directly.)

How does Burns' and Wellings' "Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in
Ada" compare to "Programming in Ada 2005" as a textbook?

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"No!  The universe is ours."



  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12 13:44 Decline? Thomas
2008-03-12 15:00 ` Decline? gpriv
2008-03-12 15:23   ` Decline? Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-12 15:25   ` Decline? Thomas
2008-03-13  0:42     ` Decline? Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-13  6:34       ` Decline? Thomas
2008-03-13 10:08         ` Decline? VilleWitt
2008-03-13 10:28           ` Upsurge? (was: Decline?) Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-13 12:04             ` Upsurge? Thomas
2008-03-13 12:13               ` Upsurge? Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-14 14:45               ` Upsurge? Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-14 15:26                 ` Upsurge? Thomas
2008-03-15 11:41                   ` Ada i Danmark (Was: Upsurge?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-03-15 16:22                     ` Thomas
2008-03-15 21:19                       ` Ada i Danmark Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-03-17 12:09                   ` Upsurge? Poul-Erik Andreasen
2008-03-17 14:58                     ` Upsurge? Thomas
2008-03-17 14:35                 ` Ada UK, was: Upsurge? Simon Clubley
2008-03-18 11:29                   ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-18 12:11                     ` Dirk Craeynest
2008-03-15  7:39               ` Upsurge? Stephen Leake
2008-03-20  5:51               ` Upsurge? DScott
2008-03-20  8:21                 ` Upsurge? Thomas
2008-03-20 20:06                   ` Upsurge? DScott
2008-03-21  9:44                     ` Upsurge? Thomas
2008-03-13 18:00       ` Decline? Gene
2008-03-13 19:50         ` Decline? Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-14 16:29           ` Decline? Eric Hughes
2008-03-14  1:46       ` Decline? Randy Brukardt
2008-03-14  7:57         ` Decline? Stefan.Lucks
2008-03-14  9:30           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2008-03-14 11:39             ` Textbooks (Was: Decline?) Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-14 13:56               ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-15 23:38               ` adaworks
2008-03-16  0:25                 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-16  7:38                 ` Textbooks Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-03-16 19:51                   ` Textbooks adaworks
2008-03-17 13:16                   ` Textbooks John McCormick
2008-03-22 16:11             ` Textbooks (Was: Decline?) stefan-lucks
2008-03-12 18:02   ` Decline? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-12 19:24 ` Decline? Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-13  9:01 ` Decline? Jerry
2008-03-15 23:18 ` Decline? adaworks
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