Title

Highways and Byways of Teaching ADA: Our Backyard Approach

Creator

Calusinski, E.

Elrad, T.

Grace, T.

Corporate Author

Illinois Institute of Technology

Army Research Office

Corporate Report Number

ARO-30997.1-MA

Date

1994

Date Issued

1994-05

NTRL Accession Number

ADA281661

Identifier

ADA281661

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. Adas 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

Description

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. Adas 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

Distribution Classification

1

Distribution Conflict

No

DTIC Record Exists

Yes

Illinois Tech Related

Yes

Report Availability

Not available via Contrails

Type

report