Is Aunit helpful?
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From: Ada novice on 10 Aug 2010 04:33 On Aug 9, 7:23 pm, Michael R <mich...(a)zanyblue.com> wrote: > I think the link to this new book should be > > http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521197168 > > Take care, > Michael. Thanks for the link. As you pointed out, maybe Aunit is discussed there. I couldn't find a detailed table of contents nor an index. Maybe this is because the book is not yet out. Perhaps Prof. McCormick would be kind to provide some more information on this forthcoming book. YC
From: Mark Lorenzen on 10 Aug 2010 05:45 On 9 Aug., 19:05, John McCormick <mccorm...(a)cs.uni.edu> wrote: > > I'm very happy you have found my Ada textbooks useful! It is always > nice when someone notices a book author's name. Feel free to contact > me directly if you have any questions on the material in the books. > The OO material in the data structures book is elementary. Check out > the Barnes or Ben-Ari books for an in depth treatment. Should you > want to go on to learn about Ada's concurrent features, I have a new > book coming out at the end of the year: Building Parallel, Embedded, > and Real-Time Applications with Ada,www.cambridge.org/9780521197168 > It is aimed at introducing the topics to novices with a background in > sequential programming. I would like to suggest also taking a look at "Concurrent and Real- Time Programming in Ada" by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings. - Mark L
From: John McCormick on 10 Aug 2010 09:48 On Aug 10, 3:33 am, Ada novice <ycalleecha...(a)gmx.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 7:23 pm, Michael R <mich...(a)zanyblue.com> wrote: > > > I think the link to this new book should be > > >http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521197168 > > > Take care, > > Michael. > > Thanks for the link. As you pointed out, maybe Aunit is discussed > there. I couldn't find a detailed table of contents nor an index. > Maybe this is because the book is not yet out. Perhaps Prof. McCormick > would be kind to provide some more information on this forthcoming > book. > > YC Sorry, nothing on AUnit in this book.
From: John McCormick on 10 Aug 2010 10:07 On Aug 10, 4:45 am, Mark Lorenzen <mark.loren...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to suggest also taking a look at "Concurrent and Real- > Time Programming in Ada" by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings. > > - Mark L Excellent recommendation. The Burns and Wellings book is the ultimate reference and guide to these topics. My copy is always within easy reach and I keep the "prior edition", Concurrency in Ada, at home. Like my forthcoming book, it is published by Cambridge University Press. Both the publisher and I felt that the B & W book is too difficult for novices. It was a real struggle for my Junior level students with minimal Ada background to get through it. We look at Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada as a prerequisite for the authoratative B & W book. John
From: Ada novice on 10 Aug 2010 13:32
On Aug 9, 7:05 pm, John McCormick <mccorm...(a)cs.uni.edu> wrote: > I'm very happy you have found my Ada textbooks useful! It is always > nice when someone notices a book author's name. Feel free to contact > me directly if you have any questions on the material in the books. > The OO material in the data structures book is elementary. Check out > the Barnes or Ben-Ari books for an in depth treatment. Should you > want to go on to learn about Ada's concurrent features, I have a new > book coming out at the end of the year: Building Parallel, Embedded, > and Real-Time Applications with Ada,www.cambridge.org/9780521197168 > It is aimed at introducing the topics to novices with a background in > sequential programming. I do remember author names of books that have caught my attention :). I have been looking at around 15 books (published since 1980) in Ada and your two books are certainly very accessible to anyone wishing to learn Ada well. I'm a PhD student in mechanical engineering wishing to learn and use Ada for scientific numerical programming. So far, Ada with its strong typing has enabled me to make much less mistakes than I was doing earlier with C. And I have also learned a few aspects of software engineering. As my interest is in scientific numerical programming, only the first half or so of your Data Structures book is relevant to me as I see it today. I wish that authors in future Ada books to also focus a bit more on the numerics annex of Ada 05 and give some useful examples which can help someone to build his/her mathematical library. I know Ben-Ari books. They are also well-written though at this instant in time seem a bit advanced for me in some parts of the books. Barnes' books are perhaps more challenging. What's make them challenging in my opinion is the lack of complete examples but I understand that complete examples would make less space for more discussions. I'm not at this moment into concurrent features but I'm certain that your forthcoming book will be pleasurable to read and I would definitely read the book at some point in the future. Studying a book on concurrency will in my opinion help to break one's habit of always finding a solution using sequential logic that we tend to pick up from other programming languages around and thus will surely help to build better codes. I shall contact you directly if I have questions relating to your books. Thanks. YC |