From: Magnus Alexandersson <m96maal@mtek.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/14
Date: 2000-01-14T20:35:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <387F88AD.1D4B5C7D@mtek.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 387F69CB.F5957CAB@quadruscorp.com
"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> Seriously: From what I've seen of Ada books, they aren't hugely out of
> line with respect to price from books on other computer topics. College
> level texts I've seen in the last couple of years on other topics have
> been even more spendy than any of the Ada books I've purchased. The
> largest cost of college is tuition. Why structure college courses around
> the cost of books? (Maybe they could hire less expensive instructors?)
Our dean says that there aren't many books out there that meets the
desired content of the
courses... Well, I believe that it's programming as a general thing to
study, not the language. On the other hand, since I learnt Ada, I've now
noticed how easy (;p) C became.
> If I were Dean of the Computer Science department, I'd be more
> interested in building a curriculum that presented important concepts in
> the subject rather than picking topics because of current industry fads
> or the cost of texts. But that's just me.
We are doing that now, learning the way of programming... Not just the
languagepart, se above.
--
///Magnus
http://www.mdtsud.chalmers.se/~md8maal
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Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-23 0:00 Ada Brijesh
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
1999-12-28 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-31 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Charles Hixson
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Magnus Alexandersson [this message]
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada tmoran
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Jon Jensen
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Greg Martin
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Brian Rogoff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Operators -> unit analysis Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Operator precedence--was " Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-26 20:06 Ada mcf501
2005-01-26 20:24 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-26 23:55 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:35 ` Ada Frank J. Lhota
2005-01-26 23:57 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:57 ` Ada Ludovic Brenta
2005-01-26 23:54 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27 0:42 ` Ada Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-27 1:17 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 4:43 ` Ada u_int32_t
2005-01-27 8:10 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 21:01 ` Ada Björn Lundin
2005-01-27 7:57 ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 10:53 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 11:05 ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 11:19 ` Ada Adrien Plisson
2005-01-28 10:27 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27 9:12 ` Ada Martin Krischik
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2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Chris Morgan
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Chris Morgan
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1997-10-28 0:00 Ada N6101233
1997-08-23 0:00 Ada Jeffrey D. Iverson
1996-08-05 0:00 ada BCummi6553
1996-06-14 0:00 ADA Robert Adams
1990-03-12 2:14 A Poor Man's Ada Library Ted Holden
1990-03-12 5:08 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-15 20:32 ` Ada William B. Tyler
1990-03-16 14:08 ` Ada Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-03-08 18:46 ADA jj
1989-11-19 3:33 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-19 17:59 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-16 19:08 ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 18:53 ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 5:24 ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22 9:54 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-23 9:44 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23 7:12 ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-18 6:38 ` Ada Marco S Hyman
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