• Understand Ada 83 in the context of an application domain
• Write Ada 83 sequential programs
• Understand the rationale for the design of Ada's core features
• Resolve basic Ada programming problems

In the workshops, the student will apply the principles taught in the lecture to problems directly related to your work. Whenever possible, your current projects and software will be used for sample problems

• Ada History & Overview
• Why learn Ada?
• The Software Crisis
• Why was Ada developed?
• The Ada Solution
• Simple Subset of Ada
• Lexical Structure
• Pragmas
• Object Declarations
• Named Numbers
• Predefined Types
• Expressions
• Statements
• Subprograms
• Using Generics
• What is a Generic?
• How do you use one?
• Reading a Generic Formal Part
• Introduction to Text I/O
• Basic usage of the predefined Text_IO package
• Overview of the Compilation System
• Language Sensitive Editors?
• Compiling your program
• Library Management
• Linking & Execution your program
• Debugging your program
• Abstraction, Types & Subtypes
• Abstraction
• Subtypes
• Types
• Modularity, Localization & Packages
• Modularity
• Localization
• Packages
• Modularization & Localization Strategies
• Information Hiding & Private Types
• Private Type Declarations
• Package Private Part
• Operations on Private Types
• Limited Types
• Scoping & Overloading
• Scope of a Declaration
• Visibility of a Declaration
• Overloading Resolution
• Program Structure
• Compilation
• Compilation Library
• Library Unit & Subunits
• With Clause
• Use Clause
• Package Standard
• Predefined Packages & Subprograms
• Exceptions
• Predefined Exceptions
• Exception Declaration
• Raising an Exception
• Handling Exceptions
• Exception Propagation
• Advanced Types
• Discriminated Records
• Variant Records
• Access Types
• Incomplete Types
• Ada I/O
• Text_IO
• Sequential_IO
• Direct_IO
• Low_Level_IO
• Conclusions