JAJZ801@CALSTATE.BITNET (JEFFREY SICHERMAN - CALSTATE LONG BEACH) (01/10/89)
Please excuse the triviality of this inquiry, but can you all recommend a good text on ADA ? I would prefer: maximum coverage (i.e. a reasonably long book), suitable as tutorial and with some reference utility, appropriate for a programmer with much experience in languages in general (Pascal, Modula, Fortran, COBOL, etc but NOT C) but with only understanding of object-oriented systems and languages - little hard experience, NO experience in ADA itself, good background on theory and why - not obsessive with examples. Would prefer paperbound but hardback OK too. Jeff Sicherman jajz801@calstate.bitnet
rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway) (01/10/89)
"Software Engineering With Ada", second edition, by Grady Booch is a classic text. It has elaborate examples and as the title suggests, concentrates on application of Booch's object oriented style of programming to software engineering. It is intended as an introductory text, and I recommend it along with the Ada Language Reference Manual. Bob Hathaway rjh@purdue.edu
sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott) (01/10/89)
Try "Software Engineering with Ada" second edition by Grady Booch.
Benjamin-Cummings Press
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recommending this book
Hope this helps!
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Motorola, Inc. Telephone : 1-817-232-6317mrp@sirius.ua.oz (Mark Prior) (01/11/89)
From article <5805@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway): > > "Software Engineering With Ada", second edition, by Grady Booch > is a classic text. > I am curently reading this book and I too can highly recommend it, I would also recommend "Programming in Ada", second edition, by J.G.P. Barnes. Mark. -- Mark Prior Phone : +61 8 228 5680 University Computing Services Telex : UNIVAD AA89141 University of Adelaide Fax : +61 8 224 0464 GPO Box 498 Adelaide S.AUSTRALIA 5001 ACSnet: mrp@sirius.ua.oz