Ada Essentials

This course is designed to give an in-depth understanding of the core language topics, and at least a basic understanding of more advanced concepts. This is done via instructor-led interactive classes, participatory quizzes, and hands-on lab exercises.

Target Audience

Developers interested in learning the fundamentals of the Ada language, and/or how to apply software engineering concepts to Ada.

Course Duration

5 days.

Location

The course can be conducted remotely or on-site.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of software engineering core concepts; experience in any compilable programming language is a plus.

Course Contents

This course is a five-day course giving a full introduction to the Ada language. The course starts with the basics:

Fundamental data types (numeric, enumerations, arrays, records)
Basic algorithmic features (expressions, statements, subprograms)
Modular program construction (packages, data abstraction/hiding)
Exceptions and exception handling
Access types
Generics

And then can be customized with choices from the following topics:

Object-oriented programming
Low-level programming
Concurrent programming
Design by contract (subprogram and type contracts)