This repository contains an Ada programming language tutorial with samples, covering a variety of topics in varying levels of depth. As with most things on GitHub, it is a work in progress.
You can download a snapshot of this tutorial as a single PDF file. Note that the snapshot might be relatively out of date compared to the contents of this repository.
Pull requests against this repository are also welcome.
To build the document, you will need a suitable TeX installation. On Windows I recommend MiKTeX, but other TeX installations should also work. In the root folder use the following commands:
$ pdflatex AdaCrash
$ bibtex AdaCrash
$ pdflatex AdaCrash
$ pdflatex AdaCrash
It is necessary to issue the same command multiple times so LaTeX will correctly build the
cross-references, the table of contents, and similar things. The result of the commands above is
the file AdaCrash.pdf. You may have to install some supporting packages into your TeX
installation. Some TeX installations can do this automatically; others may need manual
assistance.
To run the samples, install the latest version of Alire. More detailed
instructions can be found in the Hello, Ada section of the tutorial.
What follows is a brief description of the samples. See the README files in the individual sample folders for more information.
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ASIS. The ASIS library allows you to write analysis programs for Ada without having to create your own parser and semantic analyzer. This example program is merely a skeleton. (Note: it might be more appropriate to demonstrate libadalang rather than ASIS). -
Channel. This program creates a simulated noisy channel and sends random data over that channel using different error detection and correction methods. It is very old code written by me to support a computer communications class I taught many years ago. The program is mature enough to be a little interesting, but it could benefit from more elaboration. -
GtkAda. This program is intended to demonstrate the GtkAda graphical library. Right now it is little more than a placeholder (it displays a single button). A more interesting application (like a graphical version of the Hexdump example?) would be welcome. -
hexdump_sample. This program is a simple command line hex viewer. It displays the contents of a file as a sequence of bytes in hex, along with the offset of each byte and its ASCII interpretation. -
huffman_sample. This program does a Huffman encoding of the specified input file. It also displays some interesting information about the encoding process. The program is incomplete. -
Interfacing. This program demonstrates using Ada to interface to low-level code written in C and to hardware. The program is incomplete. -
Networking. This program demonstrates using Ada to write a simple client/server application. -
Tasks. This program demonstrates using Ada tasks to implement a simple producer/consumer application. The program is incomplete. -
Win32Ada. This program is intended to demonstrate the Win32Ada library that allows Ada to interface directly to the Windows OS. Right now it is little more than a placeholder. A more interesting application (again: a graphical version of the Hexdump example?) would be welcome. -
XMLAda. This program is nothing more than one of the samples in the XMLAda documentation. A more interesting application would be welcome.
Peter Chapin
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