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On 07/14/2018 04:36 AM, blakemichael073@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>   I thought that I would offer a quick beginners insights into the Ada world.
> First off, a little background, I am a mature aged first year electronics/automation engineering student that has taken an interest in real time control systems. This has lead me to interest in the Ada language.
> I have read books/tutorials that have been written by posters to this group and I am grateful for the resources that are available. I have been trying to learn to program micro-controllers.

This is an unusual way to go about it. Getting things to work on a 
micro-controller involves a number of difficulties that interfere with learning 
the language. I would recommend that you first learn the language in a typical 
desktop environment, and only once you are comfortable with it add the 
complications of the micro-controller environment.

There are several tutorials and other material for general-purpose Ada learning 
on the Ada Information Clearinghouse:

http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/

There's also the Ada Tutor Ada-95 tutorial at

https://pragmada.x10hosting.com/adatutor.html

HTH

-- 
Jeff Carter
"What lazy lout left these wires all over the lawn?"
Poppy
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