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 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

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.