From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: sdlada, löve, and programming for beginners
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 11:26:54 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2020-02-09T11:26:54-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88ce2444-2b2b-4bd7-b766-e83050d26c4d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <soX%F.192815$ls7.64495@fx40.iad>
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 17:34:17 UTC, Rick Newbie wrote:
> I don't know much about those languages but I was a bit puzzled when I
> looked up if GNAT Ada supprts Rasperry a few weeks ago to see that it
> only supports an old version. It doesn't seem to be up to date with the
See https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ for up to date OS with up to date GNAT.
> On the topic of teenage programmers: Although I am not a teenager I am
> new to Ada. What is repelling is when you read Barne's book and you
> throw up your arms and think: How am I ever going to master all that?!
It's not the best book for learning, but it's fine for people who know previous Ada's.
> But I guess what is true for C++ must be true for Ada as well: People
> use 20% of the language features 80% of the time. it would be good to
> find a way to introduce new programmers using these 20% to start with.
> Barne's book is simply overwhelming for the newcommer since it covers
> nearly all aspects and you can start out with much less
I wouldn't necessarily say that's true for Ada, there are certainly people using quite a lot of Ada features in their projects. Maybe not all, like DSA, but a lot, like OO, aspects, tasking, interfaces, containers, etc.
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2020-02-08 11:40 sdlada, löve, and programming for beginners Ludovic Brenta
2020-02-08 12:29 ` Optikos
2020-02-09 17:34 ` Rick Newbie
2020-02-09 19:26 ` Lucretia [this message]
2020-02-09 20:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-10 14:06 ` Simon Wright
2020-02-09 22:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2020-02-10 14:07 ` Simon Wright
2020-02-10 4:53 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2020-02-10 10:05 ` Rick Newbie
2020-02-10 10:37 ` gautier_niouzes
2020-02-10 17:47 ` Rick Newbie
2020-02-10 14:27 ` Lucretia
2020-02-11 19:10 ` Chris Sykes
2020-02-11 19:25 ` Lucretia
2021-10-03 12:59 ` Tama McGlinn
2021-10-03 17:45 ` darek
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