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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Textbooks (Was: Decline?)
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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."