From: "David Botton" <dbotton@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: learning ada
Date: 1998/12/26
Date: 1998-12-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <763v7h$1hne$1@news.gate.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36845EC8.6795772B@erols.com
Also check out www.botton.com/ada TheAda Source Code Treasury for examples
of code and join the mail list tehre so you get updates when new code is
added.
David Botton
LeakyStain wrote in message <36845EC8.6795772B@erols.com>...
>bob wrote:
>>
>> hey everyone, i am a student learning ADA at college right
>> now. i am considering going for a master's degree in software
>> engineering to go along with a BA in comp. engineering. i have
>> completed a course in ada, and will have one more course this next
>> semester. i really want to get a good knowledge of this language, but
>> we never do anything like what everyone talks about in here because it
>> is more advanced. i was wondering what the best way to go about
>> learning more in depth of the language, what is the best way? thanks
>> in advance
>
>First, go to www.adahome.com, and browse around a bit, so you know what
>sort of resources are available. Work thru the Lovelace tutorial, if you
>haven't done that already. Buy one of the recommended books (my favorite
>is Cohen's 'Ada as a Second Language').
>
>Then pick a program you'd like to write; a card game, a spreadsheet,
>whatever turns you on. Start writing it. You'll do it badly, but you
>don't need to show it to anyone. Look up anything you don't know how to
>do. When you're done, go back and fix it up, so it's more elegant, or
>uses some feature of Ada you didn't use the first time (tagged types or
>generics or Finalization). Most of all, keep it fun!
>
>>
>> jarrod ross
>
>-- Stephe
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