Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95

Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick

Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2000 - Computers - 919 pages

Programming and Problem Solving with Ada 95 provides a solid introduction to programming while introducing the capabilities of Ada 95 and its syntax without overwhelming the student. The book focuses on the development of good programming habits. This text offers superior pedagogy that has long defined computer science education, including problem solving case studies, testing and debugging sections, quick checks, exam preparation, programming warm-up exercises, and programming problems. The extensive coverage of material in such a student-friendly resource means that more rigor, more theory, greater use of abstraction and modeling, and the earlier application of software engineering principles can be employed.

Contents

• BOOLEAN AND ENUMERATION TYPES CONDITIONS: 4
• ADA SYNTAX SEMANTICS AND THE PROGRAM: 47
• Using Meaningful Readable Identifiers: 53
• Using Constants: 60
• Ada Lovelace: 72
• Understanding Before Changing: 79
• Formatting Output: 85
• 10: 114
• INPUT AND DESIGN METHODOLOGY: 117
• More About Procedures and Parameters: 124
• AND SELECTION CONTROL STRUCTURES: 169
• George Boole: 176
• Nested if Statements: 184
• The Lumberyard: 194
• Ski Wax Selection: 201
• Testing and Debugging: 209
• Summary: 219
• LOOPING: 231
• SUBPROGRAMS: 281
• Procedure Construction: 284
• Naming and Formatting Procedures: 297
• Nesting: 303
• Overloading Subprogram Names: 316
• Running Records: 326
• Control Abstraction Functional: 336
• Testing and Debugging: 351
• TYPES AND SUBTYPES: 377
• ADDITIONAL CONTROL STRUCTURES: 439
• THE FILE DATA TYPE AND HANDLING EXCEPTIONS: 477
• ARRAYS: 587
• PACKAGES SEARCHING AND SORTING: 685
• RECURSION: 769
• APPENDICES: A-1
• GLOSSARY: A-59
• ANSWERS TO SELECTED EXERCISES: A-75
• INDEX: A-88

About the author

Nell Dale received a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Houston, a M.A. in Mathematics, from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Nell Dale has been on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin since 1975. She teaches occasionally but concentrates on computer science education, writing, traveling, tennis, and bridge -- and her family of course. Chip Weems is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oregon State University in 1977 and 1979, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1984. Over the last 23 years, he has taught courses in introductory programming, software engineering, computer architecture, and parallel processing. Since 1986 he has co-authored 13 textbooks that have helped over a million students learn to program computers. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. He conducts research in computer architecture, compilers, parallel processing, and compiler-architecture co-optimization. John C. McCormick, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls John McCormick is a Computer Science Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles. Books he has co-authored include Programming and Problem Solving with Ada 95 Second Edition and Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object-Based Approach.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95
• Authors: Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2000
• ISBN: 0763707929, 9780763707927
• Length: 919 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Computer Science; Computers / Languages / General; Computers / Programming / General