Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design

This title is now available in a Book/CD-ROM package. (ISBN: 0-201-30485-6)Ada 95 Problem Solving and Program Design, Second Edition provides students with an introduction to programming using Ada 95. Students with no prior programming experience will begin to explore programming in this powerful, yet flexible language ideal for large-scale software system development. Adopted as a standard by the ISO and the ANSI, Ada 95 is the first fully object-oriented programming language to be internationally standardized. This allows the programs presented in the text to be completely portable to any validated Ada 95 compiler. While presenting a balanced mixture of modern programming concepts and Ada 95 language capabilities, this text provides a solid programming foundation benefiting from the richness of Ada 95.Highlights: * Emphasizes "object thinking" by introducing object-based and object-oriented programming concepts throughout the book. * Presents encapsulating design from the beginning to stress the importance of reusability of functions, packages, and procedures. * Introduces control structures, data structures, and system (encapsulation) structures in parallel throughout the book. * Presents about 200 complete, compilable, executable programs followed immediately by a sample output. * Helps students build on concepts with a continuing project, "spider graphics" recurring throughout the book. * Uses proven pedagogical features to encourage strong programming skills. These include case studies, self-check exercises, programming style displays, syntax displays, and common-error discussions in every chapter. 0201870096B04062001

Dr. Michael Feldman is a professor of computer science at The George Washington University, as well as Chair of the Education Working Group of the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda). He has over fifteen years experience teaching Ada in introductory courses, and is the author of two other books, Software Construction and Data Structures with Ada 95 and Data Structures with Modula-2. Dr. Feldman manages the popular Internet site, Ada Programming Language Resources for Educators and Students - http://www.acm.org/sigada/education.

Elliot Koffman is a professor of computer and information science at Temple University. He is one of the country's foremost CS educators, a former chairman of the ACM Task Force for introductory programming methods courses, and author of a number of successful language texts in Modula-2, FORTRAN, in addition to his four editions of Pascal and Turbo Pascal.

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