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Ada experience in the undergraduate curriculum

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 11 (November 1992) table of contents

Pages: 53 - 67

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

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Michael B. Feldman

George Washington Univ., Washington, DC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Grady Booch, Software engineering with Ada, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1983
	2	Michael B. Feldman , Arthur Vargas Lopes , Manuel Perez, SMALL-Ada: personal computer courseware for studying concurrent programming, Proceedings of the twenty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, p.206-211, February 1990, Washington, D.C., United States
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CITED BY 7

	A. T. Chamillard , William C. Hobart, Jr., Transitioning to Ada in an introductory course for non-majors, Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '97, p.37-40, November 09-13, 1997, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
	Jonathan Schilling, Use of Ada in a commericial, small company environment, Proceedings of the tenth annual Washington Ada symposium on Ada: Ada's role in software engineering, p.89-94, June 28-July 01, 1993, McLean, Virginia, United States
	A. T. Chamillard , Laurence D. Merkle, Evolution of an introductory computer science course: the long haul, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.18 n.1, p.144-153, October 2002
	James H. Cross, II , Thomas M. Phillips, Successfully integrating traditional and object-oriented approaches with Ada 95, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.28 n.1, p.19-23, March 1996
	D. G. Knight, An Ada package for multi-precision integer arithmetic, ACM SIGSMALL/PC Notes, v.19 n.2, p.17-24, Nov. 1993
	Raymond J. Toal, Using Ada and C++ in computer science education, ACM SIGAda Ada Letters, v.XVI n.1, p.58-69, Jan./Feb. 1996
	Arnold Pears , Stephen Seidman , Lauri Malmi , Linda Mannila , Elizabeth Adams , Jens Bennedsen , Marie Devlin , James Paterson, A survey of literature on the teaching of introductory programming, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.39 n.4, December 2007

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
Subjects: Curriculum

General Terms:
Languages

Keywords:
Ada

REVIEW

"Doris Keefe Lidtke : Reviewer"

Feldman's well-written paper on the use of Ada in the undergraduate curriculum is a must read for anyone considering a change of language for CS1 or CS2. Feldman makes the case for Ada and provides ample pointers to institutions now teaching A more...

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