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From: grichard@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard)
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada
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Date: 24 Aug 89 15:55:12 GMT
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In article <2658@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) writes:

>But are the students allowed to *use* more than the core syntax?

I can't vouch for other programs, but at the University of New Orleans the
approach was to gradually introduce additional Ada features as the course
sequence progressed.   There was no penalty whatever for using some part of
Ada that hadn't been "officially" covered in class as long as said use was
reasonably intelligent (for instance:  using exceptions to catch an end of
file condition would result in being an ingredient in the next batch of
gumbo.)   Major facilities were covered in the UNO high-level language core
courses in approximately this fashion :

CS1583  (intro)                          Pascal-ish  "core" syntax, maybe some
                                         mention of exceptions, packages as
                                         an aside

CS2120  (algorithm design)               packages, exceptions

CS2125  (data structures)                "hard-core" package use for ADTs,
                                         generics, possibly some tasking

CS4401  (operating systems)              tasking


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