treid@MITRE.ARPA (Thomas Reid) (12/15/85)
A ten-day Hands-on Ada Programming course will be given from
January 6 to January 17, 1985 by the Professional Development
Seminar Committee of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of ACM. The
course will be held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, 1850 North Fort
Myer Drive in Arlington, VA, 22209 (703-522-0400 for
reservations).
The course objective is a detailed introduction to the
effective application of Ada and includes the background and
development of Ada, detailed presentation of the concepts and
features in the context of modern software engineering, and the
opportunity to develop practical skills through hands-on
exercises.
The course will be taught on an Eclipse MV 4000 computer
made available with six workstations at no cost by the Data
General Corporation. The course will use the ROHM/DGC ADE Ada
development environment with a validated Ada compiler and a tool
set hosted on the AOS/VS operating system. The system will be
available until 8:00PM class days and on Saturday in addition to
class time.
Helmut Thiess is the course organizer and lead instructor.
Mr. Thiess is an Asst. Professor of Computer and Information
Sciences at Towson State University and a lecturer at the
University of Maryland. Dr. George W. Cherry will present the
tasking section.
Class materials are "Software Engineering with Ada" by G.
Booch, "Parallel Programming in ANSI Standard Ada" by G. W.
Cherry, ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A (Ada Programming Language), and
Eclipse AOS/VS and ADE Ada manuals.
For a copy of the brochure or additional information, please
contact Helmut E. Thiess at (301) 321-2989 during the day or
(202) 265-9439 at home.
Registration fees (including refreshments at breaks and
course text material) are:
ACM Chapter Members $ 950
Non-members $ 1000
After December 15, 1985 $ 1050
Purchase or training orders not accepted