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An experiment in the use of Ada in course in software engineering

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 18, Issue 1

Pages 124 - 126

https://doi.org/10.1145/953055.5706

Published: 01 February 1986 Publication History

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This paper describes our experience in using Ada as a vehicle for teaching Software Engineering concepts in a course for first year undergraduate students at the University of Montreal.

We first review the curriculum at our university and then give an idea of the hardware and software at our disposition. We describe the goals we had in mind in using Ada as a teaching language and then we detail the topics and the assignments chosen in our course. We conclude by describing a few lessons learned from that experience. All in all, we are very satisfied with this experiment and we intend to carry on next year.

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Reviewer: William J. Eccles

The authors used Ada as the language for their first-year undergraduate course and like the results. Although plagued by a slow and incomplete compiler, slowed by the need to run batch, and limited by Ada's more static handling of object-oriented programming, they feel the students began to learn to build systems rather than programs, and that they will continue to use Ada.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 18, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 17th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

February 1986

304 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/953055

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SIGCSE '86: Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1986
336 pages
ISBN:0897911784
DOI:10.1145/5600
Editors:
Joyce Currie Little
Towson State Univ., Baltimore, MD
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Lillian N. Cassel
Univ. of Delaware, Newark

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Kurtz BPuckett TAusting RCassel L(1990)Implementing a single classwide project in software engineering using Ada tasking for synchronization and communcationProceedings of the twenty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/323410.319066(6-11)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1990
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Kurtz BPuckett T(1990)Implementing a single classwide project in software engineering using Ada tasking for synchronization and communcationACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/319059.31906622:1(6-11)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1990
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Mynatt BLeventhal L(1987)Profile of undergraduate software engineering courses: results from a surveyProceedings of the eighteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/31820.31817(523-528)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31820.31817
Mynatt BLeventhal L(1987)Profile of undergraduate software engineering courses: results from a surveyACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/31726.3181719:1(523-528)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31726.31817

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