Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design [Paperback]

Michael B. Feldman (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0201304856 | ISBN-13: 978-0201304855 | Publication Date: January 1997 | Edition: 2nd Bk&CD

Students with no prior programming experience will begin to program with this powerful language ideal for large-scale software system development, such as the Boeing 777. Ada 95 is the first object-oriented programming language to be internationally standardized. This allows the programs presented in the text to be completely portable to any validated Ada 95 compiler. While presenting a balanced mixture of modern programming concepts and Ada 95 language capabilities, this text provides a solid programming foundation.

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In this third edition, educators Michael Feldman and Elliot Koffman continue to refine and enhance their balanced presentation of modern programming concepts and Ada 95 language capabilities. Students with no prior programming experience will begin to program with this interesting and powerful, yet flexible language that is used in the Boeing 777 and Airbus 340, the International Space Station, the European high-speed rail system, and many other major projects around the world.

This text includes a CD-ROM containing versions of the GNU Ada 95 compiler (GNAT), other program development tools, and high-resolution graphics support for the Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems. GNAT supports the full Ada 95 language as standardized by the ISO and the ANSI.

Features

• Provides an optional second chapter that uses "spider graphics" to swiftly introduce students to algorithmic control structures
• Introduces control structures, data structures, and system (encapsulation) structures in parallel throughout the book
• Uses proven pedagogical features to encourage strong programming skills. These include case studies, self-check exercises, programming style displays, syntax displays, and common-error discussions in every chapter

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About the Author

Dr. Michael Feldman is a professor of computer science at The George Washington University, as well as Chair of the Education Working Group of the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda). He has over fifteen years experience teaching Ada in introductory courses, and is the author of two other books, Software Construction and Data Structures with Ada 95 and Data Structures with Modula-2. Dr. Feldman manages the popular Internet site, Ada Programming Language Resources for Educators and Students - http://www.acm.org/sigada/education.

Elliot Koffman is a professor of computer and information science at Temple University. He is one of the country's foremost CS educators, a former chairman of the ACM Task Force for introductory programming methods courses, and author of a number of successful language texts in Modula-2, FORTRAN, in addition to his four editions of Pascal and Turbo Pascal.

020136123XAB04062001 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley; 2nd Bk&CD edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201304856
• ISBN-13: 978-0201304855
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,755,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good text for an Intro to Ada95 class., August 4, 1998

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This review is from: Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (Paperback)

The text is an organized, well written, generously exampled introduction to Ada95 for the novice. It provides a good basis for object oriented programming using Ada95 for generics and privates (ADTs), it does not cover as fully or clearly inheritance and/or polymorphism. This book is apropriate for a 200 level CS class. I personally was disappointed with the amount of clear differentiation between Ada83 and Ada95. The section on tasking dismisses conditional Select entry as being beyond the scope of the book. Variant records are given too large a play. though they are a good intro to the thinking behind Ada polymorphism, in practice (Ada83) they are too code intensive and have serious short comings when used as private data elements. Overall, I think that this is a good, complete Ada95 introductory text. It is NOT an in-depth push the boundaries of the language or a "here's how to go from Ada 83 to Ada 95."

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent course book for the Ada programming language!!!, October 28, 1997

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This review is from: Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (Paperback)

I use this book in several Ada courses that I teach. This book is outstanding! The accompanying CD contains a validated compiler and all the examples in the textbook. The examples are excellent! Mark Oestmann

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to Ada95., April 6, 1999

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This review is from: Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

Ada 95 is nicely written easy to understand book. I use this book in beginning Ada 95 course that I teach. It explains programming concepts and Ada 95 constructs in a interesting way by citing examples. It comes with a CD which has GNAT Ada95 compiler (for PC/MAC/UNIX) as well as key documentations like ARM, AARM, and Rationale in text, html and postscript format. I highly recommend this book to any one interested in learning Ada 95 from beginning. Great book!!!