Re: Ada: A beginners experience

[fabien.chouteau@gmail.com]

On Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 4:36:32 AM UTC+2, blakemi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>  I thought that I would offer a quick beginners insights into the Ada world. 

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I work for AdaCore and I'm very interested in making embedded/bare-metal Ada easier for beginners.

For instance we have the Ada Drivers Library project [1], you didn't mention it so maybe you don't know it yet. The goal of this project is to provide drivers and support for boards like the STM32 discovery, the BBC micro:bit or the RISC-V HiFive1.

The documentation is still not good enough but we are making progress. This month I worked on documented examples for the micro:bit [2]. I think they are good for beginners, any comment would be greatly appreciated of course. 

For the learning experience, we are going to launch a new interactive learning website. Stay tuned on that, I will share the info here once it's available (hopefully this week).

You might be interested by the embedded programming competition that we organize in October: www.makewithada.org

Looking forward seeing you projects,

[1] https://github.com/AdaCore/Ada_Drivers_Library
[2] https://github.com/AdaCore/Ada_Drivers_Library/tree/master/examples/MicroBit