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Highways and Byways of Teaching ADA: Our Backyard Approach.


ADA281661

Publication Date 1994
Personal Author Calusinski, E.; Elrad, T.; Grace, T.
Page Count 65
Abstract Ada is a modern language, for modern students that solve modern problems. Ada was designed to be a language that promotes the goals of modern software engineering. It promotes modifiability, efficiency, reliability, and understandability. Ada was also designed to support the principles of modern software engineering. It promotes data abstraction, information hiding, modularity, localization, uniformity, completeness and confirmability. Ada's original design chose program readability over ease of writing. The attribute promotes code understandability, which helps prevent erroneous and error-prone programs. The Ada language supports separate compilation units. This helps in program development and maintenance, which is helpful when developing large, complex software engineering projects. Given all the underlying features of Ada, it is apparent that Ada is an excellent language to use when teaching students the principles of computer science.
Keywords
  • Ada programming language
  • Software engineering
  • Teaching methods
  • Courses(Education)
  • Concurrent engineering
  • Operating systems(Computers)
  • Education
Source Agency
  • Army
  • Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category
  • 62B - Computer Software
  • 62D - Information Processing Standards
Corporate Authors Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago.; Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Document Type Technical Report
Title Note Final rept. 25 Sep 92-31 Dec 93.
NTIS Issue Number 199421
Highways and Byways of Teaching ADA: Our Backyard Approach.
Highways and Byways of Teaching ADA: Our Backyard Approach.
ADA281661

  • Ada programming language
  • Software engineering
  • Teaching methods
  • Courses(Education)
  • Concurrent engineering
  • Operating systems(Computers)
  • Education
  • Army
  • Non Paid ADAS
  • 62B - Computer Software
  • 62D - Information Processing Standards
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