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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9cccf6ef6149fdaa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Magnus Alexandersson Subject: Re: Ada Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F88AD.1D4B5C7D@mtek.chalmers.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572712746 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38620350.48F8FC08@gecm.com> <386216c3.172629337@news.draper.com> <38690E47.7DBDC2D1@quadruscorp.com> <387DE7E7.8BB2AE64@mtek.chalmers.se> <85mpvr$mm42@ftp.kvaerner.com> <2000Jan14.084231.1@eisner> <387F69CB.F5957CAB@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@chalmers.se X-Trace: nyheter.chalmers.se 947882128 28908 129.16.200.106 (14 Jan 2000 20:35:28 GMT) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jan 2000 20:35:28 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T20:35:28+00:00 List-Id: "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