How to Order the Book - Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial
Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial by David A. Wheeler
is now available as a hardcover book.
The publisher is Springer-Verlag and its
ISBN number is 0-387-948-01-5.
The book is about 292 pages long and was published in 1997.
Here's a quote from the preface that explains its purpose:
"This tutorial explains the basics of the Ada computer programming
language and assumes that you have had some exposure to some other
algorithmic programming language (such as Pascal, C, C++, Fortran,
or BASIC)."
If you order the book directly from Springer-Verlag
it will cost $49.95 (U.S. dollars), plus shipping.
In the U.S., shipping is $3.00 using UPS ground;
in Mexico shipping costs $7.25 for UPS Air.
The following are various ways you can order the book:
- You can call Springer-Verlag.
In the U.S., Canada and Mexico their toll-free number is (800) 777-4643.
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order
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Here is a brief outline of the book:
- Lesson 1 - Brief Introduction to Ada.
- Lesson 2 - Basic Ada Structure (Packages).
- Lesson 3 - Ada Lexical Elements.
- Lesson 4 - Procedures and Type Integer.
- Lesson 5 - Statements (if, loop).
- Lesson 6 - Basic Types
(Float, Boolean, subtypes, record).
- Lesson 7 - Object-Oriented Programming.
- Lesson 8 - Introduction to String Types.
- Lesson 9 - Basic Input/Output.
- Lesson 10 - Exceptions.
- Lesson 11 - Generics.
- Lesson 12 - Access Types.
- Lesson 13 - Tasks and Protected Types.
- Lesson 14 - Ada-related Information.
- Lesson 15 - Ada Program Structure.
- Lesson 16 - Interfacing to Other Languages
(including C and Java).
- Lesson 17 - Miscellaneous Ada Subjects.
- Lesson 18 - Sample Ada Program "Small".
- Appendices - BNF Explanation and Source Code
- Index
The book also has questions at the end of each lesson which should
be useful in classroom settings.
You can can also see David A. Wheeler's
on-line resume.
David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@ida.org)