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From: AMXMC-SEL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Mark Oestmann)
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Subject: Ada Primer
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In Info-Ada Digest Volume 89, Issue 146, Darrell Schiebel writes:

> Can anyone recomend a GOOD book to serve as a Primer
> for Ada?
>
> Darrell Schiebel   -   drs@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu
> Concurrent Engineering Research Center
> West Virginia University

I would recommend "Introductory Ada - Packages for Programming" by 
Putnam P. Texel.  The book is an incomplete coverage of Ada, but it
does an excellent job of getting a novice in a proper Ada mind-set.
A second book by Texel covering the remainder of Ada has not yet 
been published.

I would recommend "Ada as a second language" by Norman H. Cohen as a 
reference text or a second book in addition to Texel's book.  Lots of
great examples in this text.

				Mark Oestmann
				School of Engineering and Logistics
				Red River Army Depot
				Texarkana, TX  75507-5000
				
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