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How to Learn Ada
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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

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ARA Members AdaCore Praxis Critical Systems IBM Rational Sofcheck
 
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