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Title: Programming in Ada 95 (2nd Edition) by John Barnes ISBN: 0-201-34293-6 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is clear and concise for beginners or experts.
Comment: If you believe all the bad reviews you've read about this book...don't! Anyone who thinks this book is hard to read and should only be used by experienced programmers probably shouldn't even be trusted to tie their own shoes. I didn't know a thing about Ada before buying this book and after reading it I feel I know as much as Mr. Barnes himself. The history of Ada83 and Ada95 - as well as OO programming - is well-organized and top-notch. The sections clearly mark differences between Ada83 and Ada95. It has numerous real-world examples which are helpful for my every day applications. It's also a great progressive learning tool with numerous exercises at the end of each section.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly accessible, complete coverage of Ada 95
Comment: John Barnes' book is a very easy to read, complete coverage of a powerful language. The book is intended for those with some knowledge of programming, providing both details and, especially, rationale for the language features.
Explaining the rationale and possible use of language features is, in fact, the best aspect of the book, and has long been a characteristic of Barnes' writing. So many books in this category simply reiterate syntax and semantics; read this book and you will *understand* Ada as well as recognize it.
If you pay attention there is even subtle humor strewn throughout, making an otherwise potentially dry subject a pleasure to read about.
As a long-time Ada developer and a provider of industrial Ada-related courses, I strongly recommend this book to those who have no prior experience with the Ada language. As the owner of over forty books on the subject (including both editions of this one!) I rate this second edition in the top handful of all books concerning the Ada language.
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but not for beginners
Comment: Like the Ada language itself, I find this book wordy and repetitive, but complete. It really does seem to have full descriptions of all the language features. I'm not sure, because I have to flip to so many different sections to see one feature described, that I really don't know whether I found everything.
This book reads like a standards document, designed by commitee. (If you're never read standards, imagine reading 'War and Peace' by selecting pages in random order.) In the bigger standards, any given component tends to make sense only when you've mastered all other system features, so you understand how that component fits the system as a whole. That means the learning curve includes a jump discontinuity, from zero up to where you've absorbed some critical mass of information. That's what this book is like.
Yes, Ada is a complex language, so a truly brief description is impossible. A better writer knows, though, that brevity (to a point) improves clarity, and that the organization of content is at least as important as the content itself.
The one real strength in this book is the many examples. They are sometimes over-long for the points they make, but seem to demonstrate most of the important language features.
If you already know a few languages including at least one with object orientation, you should be able to hack a trail for yourself through this thicket of information - the author has not paved a clear path for you. If you are a beginning programmer, you're likely to have a hard time of it.
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Title: Ada As A Second Language by Norman Cohen ISBN: 0070116075 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $87.64 |
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Title: Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (3rd Edition) by Michael B. Feldman, Elliot B. Koffman ISBN: 020136123X Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Concurrency in Ada by Alan Burns, Andy Wellings ISBN: 052162911X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 19 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: Data Structures and Algorithms: An Object-Oriented Approach Using Ada 95 (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) by John Beidler ISBN: 0387948341 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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Title: Ada 95 from the Beginning (3rd Edition) by Jan Skansholm ISBN: 0201403765 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 23 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $76.00 |
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