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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 13:21:25 UTC, J-P. Rosen  wrote:
> Le 03/12/2019 =C3=A0 13:33, Lucretia a =C3=A9crit :
> >> Yes, he is. I had a little conversation on the very first edition
> >> with him. I esp. objected that he started his examples with using
> >> Integer rather than user-defined types (which IMHO is the very
> >> heart of Ada). I do not know whether he changed this.
>=20
> > There's nothing wrong with using integer to start off and then moving
> > onto defined types.
> Yes there is! (see my paper at the last Ada-Europe). The first message
> when you teach Ada is that it is all about defining proper types. You
> have to start by fighting bad habits from other languages.

People coming from other languages might not grasp types easily, so start t=
hem off with an integer type and show them the range of it, then natural an=
d positive explaining how they are defined and their ranges. Then drop them=
 into their own types.