Beginning Ada Programming From Novice to Professional /: From Novice to Professional. (c2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew T. Shvets.
• Other Names: Shvets, Andrew T
• Contents: Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introductory Topics -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What You Will Get Out of This Book -- The Current State of Software Development -- The Benefits That Ada Brings to the Table -- How Did This Language Get Its Name? -- Why Write This Book -- Myths About Ada -- Layout of This Book -- Standards in This Book -- Getting Started -- The Obligatory "Hello World" Example -- What Do the File Endings Mean? -- Contacting the Author and Source Code -- Lab -- Chapter 2: Basic Types What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- The Basics of Variable Creation and Assignment -- Numbers - Integers -- What Are Attributes? -- Three Types of Integers? -- There Are No Long_Long_Naturals or Long_Long_Positives! -- There Is Also a Long_Integer... -- Numbers - Floats -- Boolean Type -- Default Values -- Strings -- Wordy Class Paths -- Characters -- Lab -- Chapter 3: Basic Control Structures -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- If Statement -- Parentheses and If Statements -- Case Statement -- While Loop -- For Loop -- Going Back -- Infinite Loop A Simple Loop and an Infinite Loop -- Do Not GOTO! -- Lab -- Chapter 4: Procedures and Functions -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- Difference Between a Procedure and a Function -- Getting Information In and Out of Procedures and Functions -- How to Declare and Implement Procedures and Functions -- Uninitialized Values Are Risky -- The Declare Block -- Recursion -- Recursion: Functions or Procedures? -- Lab -- Chapter 5: Arrays, Records, and Access Types -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- A Very Simple Array -- An Array of Strings -- Runtime Allocation of Arrays Creating and Populating Records -- Creating Array of Records -- Access Types -- Lab -- Chapter 6: Basics of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- Packages and Objects in a Nutshell -- Not Every Problem Is a Nail and OOP Is Not a Universal Hammer -- The Guts of a Package -- How to Use a Package -- State, Information Hiding, Constructors, and Destructors -- Lab -- Part II: Intermediate Topics -- Chapter 7: Exception Handling -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- Description of Exceptions -- When to Use Exceptions -- Catching Exceptions The Ever-Helpful Compiler -- Throwing Existing Exceptions -- Throwing and Making Your Own Exceptions -- Lab -- Chapter 8: The Basics of I/O and Interacting with the Operating System -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- Reading from a Text File -- Writing to a Text File -- Executing Commands -- Command-Line Arguments -- Entering Runtime Text -- Lab -- Chapter 9: String Operations -- What You Will Get Out of This Chapter -- How to Concatenate and Split Apart Strings -- How to Search Inside Strings -- More Advanced Text Manipulation Techniques -- How to Execute Regular Expressions
• Publisher Details: Berkeley, CA : Apress L. P
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Subjects: 005.13/3; Ada (Computer program language); Ada (Computer program language); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484254288; 1484254287; 9781484254295; 1484254295
• Related ISBNs: 9781484254271; 1484254279
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