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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cbdf4b7efd0b03b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Textbooks Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:38:27 +0100 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <47d7de50$0$89175$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> <6401244f-3062-4f4a-8f19-4e71b6b1ff11@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <47d7f5ce$0$99023$157c6196@dreader2.cybercity.dk> <87tzjb8nfa.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <47da6400$0$1774$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: taasingegade.news.jacob-sparre.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1205653142 21620 85.82.239.166 (16 Mar 2008 07:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:39:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5AN9uFUvhHfgvW9+6yL6XzyhDFI= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20434 Date: 2008-03-16T08:38:27+01:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > Ada Distilled includes a complete set of fully-coded programs that > work. When you use that book, be sure to also download the separate > file that includes the programs. Then, you can present those > programs in any order you wish. I have tried to use Ada Distilled in a course, but it didn't work out as well as I had hoped. Mostly because I wasn't teaching experienced programmers. For inexperienced students, it isn't quite right. Greetings, Jacob -- "... while the C compiler will happily generate code for almost anything produced by leaning on the keyboard."