walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) (12/14/88)
In article <17710@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes: >Can anyone comment on the quality and content of the University of >Huston, Clear Lake Ada programme? I am led to believe the priciple >instructor was a participant in the definition of Ada. >A brief syllabus of the course would be helpfull... I took the Ada course from Dr. Charles McKay, UHCL's Ada leader. It was an excellent course full of content (too full, some students thought). He taught parallel tracks with the textbook (Ada semantics), programming assignments (Ada syntax), lecture (theory of parallel computation), and homework assignments (programming methodology). The text was "Programming in Ada" by J. G. P. Barnes, Addison-Wesley. Perhaps McKay's lecture notes have been published by now. The only thing wrong with the course was that, back then, there was no way to run Ada except NYU-Ada on a VAX. So, of course, it was too slow to run any substantial programs. UHCL has a large program in Ada, with many graduate students, research grants, and joint research projects with NASA. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My opinions are my own. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. UUCP: {pyramid,sri-unix,ingr}!garth!walter (415) 852-2384 USPS: Intergraph APD, 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------