Re: Ada Distilled 2012

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 3:21:29 PM UTC-6, rri...@itu.edu wrote:
> I talked with Ed yesterday.  He is working on the update.   He is also including some new, fully coded and working, examples of the new Ada fearures.  Some od them will be in the new Appendix to the book.   
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> Ed has created some new examples to highlight the significant changes in the language.    
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> It might be ready in a few months, depending on how the testing of the new examples proceeds.   Yes, we have had a long standing policy of ensuring the coded examples compile and execute as intended.
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> Meanwhile, I am thinking about teaching an on-line, for credit, graduate level (MS) course in Ada under the umbrella of the school where I am currently an adjunct faculty, International Technological University (www.itu.edu) in San Jose, CA.   ITU is a non-profit school focused on engineering, IT, software engineering, and computer science.   
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> If there is sufficient interest from the Ada community, including contractors and others, I may be able to persuade the school to let me teach this class on-line across international borders.   You may send me an email at rriehle at itu.edu, if you have some people who would want to enroll in such a course.
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> Richard Riehle, PhD

Awesome news!
Thank you (and Ed) for your work.

Sadly I don't know of anyone [offhand] who would be interested in the course and has the disposable money at present.