mthoms@engin.umich.edu (Michael Kenneth Thoms) (04/06/91)
Keywords: Does anyone know of any good ADA programmers guides for beginners? I am taking a job with a firm that is intrested in doing Air Trafic Control work in ADA. Any advice as to what book to read to get a lot of ADA programming experience quickly? Thanks in advance. Mike Thoms University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
abbasi@smaug.enet.dec.com (Nasser ABBASI) (04/07/91)
In article <1991Apr6.031526.6538@engin.umich.edu>, mthoms@engin.umich.edu (Michael Kenneth Thoms) writes... > Does anyone know of any good ADA programmers guides > for beginners? I am taking a job with a firm that > is intrested in doing Air Trafic Control work in ADA. > > Any advice as to what book to read to get a lot of > ADA programming experience quickly? > > Thanks in advance. > >Mike Thoms >University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ok, you need to keep in mind to get the 'Big' picture as well the 'small' picture, to get the most out of the language. A good book for showing how to design using ada is 'software engineering with ada' Grady Booch. ANother good book with more detailed into ada is 'ADA as a second language' by Norman H. Cohen (McGraw-hill) (830 pages) to get a look at ADA packages for different types of structures see 'Software Components with ADA' Grady Booch. you'll find as you work more with ADA, that the way you think of programming will be different from non object-based languages such as C,Pli,Pascal etc. you'll end up spending more time in design stage, you Boss might start getting worried because not-much-code is cracked out, but in the end you should end up with a better designed and built software, since the language seems to make you think more of what you are doing. (ie. in terms of packages, Data Hiding, forces you to update an OUT parmeter, declare parmeter IN, OUT, INOUT to make it cleare to maintain etc..) on the otehr hand there is no language that will prevent one from writting bad code! If you were to learn ADA and say C from the scratch, you'll learn C faster and start writing programs quicker in C, but even though ADA will take you longer to learn and to start writing large program in it, I think the pay off should be worth it. IMHO offcourse. /naser **** discalimer: this are my own personal opinions, as always
boubaker@ada.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (HEDDY) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr6.031526.6538@engin.umich.edu>, mthoms@engin.umich.edu (Michael Kenneth Thoms) writes: > > Does anyone know of any good ADA programmers guides > for beginners? I am taking a job with a firm that > is intrested in doing Air Trafic Control work in ADA. > > Any advice as to what book to read to get a lot of > ADA programming experience quickly? > > Thanks in advance. > > > Mike Thoms > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor > try 'Programming in ADA' by John BARNES, publish by addison-wesley. ______________________________________________________________________________ ! BOUBAKER HEDDY ! C.E.N.A FRANCE ! BOUBAKER@COMM.CENAATH.CENA.DGAC.FR ! ! ! athis-mons ! BOUBAKER@ADA.CENAATH.CENA.DGAC.FR ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ms33@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Sullivan, a.k.a. Sully) (04/12/91)
In article <1991Apr6.031526.6538@engin.umich.edu>, mthoms@engin.umich.edu (Michael Kenneth Thoms) writes: > > Does anyone know of any good ADA programmers guides > for beginners? ... > > Any advice as to what book to read to get a lot of > ADA programming experience quickly? > ... > Mike Thoms > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor > Another book to try is 'Ada as a second language' by Norman Cohen, published by McGraw-Hill. It was highly recommended by my teacher, and I have to agree, it is a good book for learning Ada. Mike Sullivan One of many Michael P. Sullivans, my views are expressly my own, and are not endorsed by my boss, fellow workers, or any other Mike Sullivan. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: ms33@prism.gatech.edu | Ga.Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332