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Training, Conferences, Courses, & Tutorials on Ada
- Absolute Software holds public Ada 95 courses
throughout the year in Carlsbad, CA. They also offer classes on
object-oriented methods and other object-oriented languages.
- A list of private consultants and corporations
specializing in training programmers in the Ada language and software engineering,
with an example of the kind of course they offer.
- A source for Ada conferences,
which SIGAda updates and supports.
- David A. Wheeler's Lovelace Tutorial is
an online guide to learning Ada that is also available
as a book.
- Richard Riehle's short textbook
Ada Distilled is
available here as a .PDF file. More information about the book and
downloads for it can be found on our free textbooks page.
- Other Ada textbooks also have on-line versions. See
our free textbooks page for details on accessing
Ada95: The Craft of Object Oriented Programming and Ada for Software Engineers
on-line.
- Videos and slides from the presentations from the
Ada UK Conference 2007
are available on-line at the Ada Answers site.
General Information on Ada
- Introduction to Ada 95
in the Embedded Systems Programming Journal
An introduction to Ada by Ben Brosgol, one of the language's original designers.
- Introducing Ada
Jim Rogers takes you on a tour of Ada, describing all of the major features
of the language.
- An Overview of Ada 95
An overview of Ada 95, concentrating on features added by Ada 95.
- Ada Terminology
A glossary of Ada terminology.
- FAQs
Two web sites offer separate lists of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Ada.
The sites cover different ground, so check both of them for answers.
- Ada Power
The most up-to-date AdaFAQ, which David Botton actively maintains, is on AdaPower.
- Ada Home
While the Ada Programmer's Frequently Asked Questions page covers a broader
variety of topics, Magnus Kempe no longer maintains the AdaHome site and some
of the links are broken. While we have a copy of the FAQ, we cannot update or
correct it because of the author's copyright restrictions.
- Wikis
The Wikibooks Ada
Programming Wiki covers many Ada topics in a tutorial style. It was chosen
Book of the Month in September 2005.
Ada Textbooks
A list of textbooks for Ada 95 and
Ada 2005 with descriptions and sources for acquiring the books. The list includes sources
for information about the authors, including contact addresses. Technical Articles on Ada
- Multiple Inheritance in Ada 95
This article, from the lead designer of Ada 95, explains why Ada 95 doesn't
need a multiple inheritance feature.
- Shared Resource Design Patterns
This article describes a variety of ways to control access to shared resources in
multitasking programs.
- Safe Pointers
The author describes a technique for avoiding problems with access values caused
by erroneous use of Unchecked_Deallocation.
- Compatibility Between Ada 83 and Ada 95
This article discusses the compatibility issues when moving from Ada 83 to Ada 95.
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