Teaching Ada (Trademark) at the US Military Academy,
Abstract
A five year history of teaching Ada* with the NYU Ada/Ed translator has evolved into an effective methodology for teaching top-down engineering design simultaneously with a bottom-up presentation of the Ada grammar. With emphasis on embedded hardware systems, students are confronted with successively more difficult design problems which must be written and executed on a VAX-11/780. Exposed to the Ada features of packages, concurrency, generics, and exception handling, students design, write and execute an extensive term project simulating a real-time embedded system using Ada. Projects approach the 1000 lines of source code limitation of the translator. Reusability of code is stressed by importing a previous year's package when feasible. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADP003418
Entities
People
- K. J. Cogan
Organizations
- United States Military Academy