I purchased this book to assist my business with writing ADA compliant job descriptions based on a job analysis. For the most part it was helpful but it did not fulfill all of my expectations. I would have liked more examples and to have the book provide more guidelines. This book needs more legal information and should be updated.

Though it is a technical government publication and much of the material is outdated, this book has all of the basics on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boring: but a must have resource. Thomas Schmokel - ADA Consultant - ADA-Experts.com

As a freshman at an upstate New York state university, this was the textbook for the second sequential computer science course. Of course, the choice was obvious: McCormick being a former professor at the school. At that point, I was a beginning programmer, having already taken basic programming classes. This book, however, is responsible for my now-firm grasp of data structures and algorithms. Both dynamic and static structures, complex and simple, this book is the primer for an understanding of data structures in Ada.

As an Ada textbook alone, it has its faults: it assumes the reader has a knowledge of the programming language, but from that point teaches a method of programming that enforces good stylistic patterns and strong code. Now, when it comes to algorithm layout in my position as a design engineer, I turn to Ada first for a comprehensible design structure, and then port it to other languages as necessary.

It was a good book, but a bit lengthy. It is hard to keep a classroom full of 30 children's attention with this book. i would not recommend putting this as an adaption to a lesson.

This book was reasonable for CS2 courses, although the constant errors, whether typographic or semantic, caused many problems. There were too few examples, and not enough basic description. Would be good if you were familiar with other languages. Beginners will struggle.

I thought this book was beautiful, both in the dreamlike quality of the writing and rich pictures that vividly depicts the scene captured in snapshots frame don eery other page. However, granting this boy a vision and warning dream seems like stretching the alternative view that doens't glorify Chirstopher Columbus and instead focuses on how his arrival killed off the people with diseases andenslaved them. Perhaps I have been too saturated with this type of view so that the alternatives are just as annoying as the tradition "Columbus was wonderful" stories. Perhaps just telling a more middle line truth would be more helpful. Otherwise, the book is blessed with Yolen's storytelling talent, a touching story, and beautiful illustrations.

The book covers old material in that it is based on Ada83, but then it is an old book. There is good information on the considerations involved in writing an operating system. I was disappointed that they still used C for the kernel, but the explanation of the kernel writing was an interesting read. Appendix C was a good review of Ada tasking. I need to read it again more carefully, and then brush up on Ada95 tasking to see if the problems mentioned would still be a problem with Ada95. The other problems they encountered with using Ada (not having a real compiler and having to use a cross compiler) wouldn't be applicable today. The research they did was for distributed systems and there is a lot of information about distributed processing that is still relevent today. Generally, it is a nice read.

This book is hideous. Vast numbers of grammatic, editorial, factual, and programmatic errors poision the entire reading experience. Entire passages are utterly incomprehensible on the first reading. It's obvious the book has its origins as a sloppy newsgroup posting. With all the other high-quality Ada books available, save your money for something worthwhile. It's quite a shame, actually, because this topic and approach could help many C and C++ bigots to see the light, if the execution weren't so abysmally weak.

Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers does a good job in showing the "mapping" from C/C++ to Ada. The short examples throughout the book give side by side comparisons of the language constructs. However, the examples need to be viewed somewhat skeptically. There are numerous errors (syntax, logic, comments) in the examples. There are also places where the text and the examples diverge, e.g., the text discusses functions but the example show procedures. If you are an experienced C/C++ programmer and are just starting Ada 95, this book would be helpful. However, if you've been using Ada 95 for a while, you will have already picked up most of the mapping that this book shows.

I have used this book as a useful reference on a number of projects, granted there are some issues. I have also contacted the author a number of times and always had a very good discussion that has helped. I found this text while at college after a teacher suggested it (they had used earlier material by the author). All in all the previous postings seem a bit harsh given my personal experience.