Welcome to Lovelace, an Ada 95 tutorial! This tutorial will explain the basics of the Ada computer programming language. This tutorial assumes that you have had some exposure to some other algorithmic programming language (such as Pascal, C, C++, or Fortran). This tutorial teaches the latest version of Ada, termed `Ada 95' or `Ada 9X', but it does note differences where they occur with the previous version of Ada (termed `Ada 83' or `Ada 87'). Lovelace was developed by David A. Wheeler.

You can start right now with the first tutorial section.

You can see information on my forthcoming book, Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial

You can also see:

• General information about Lovelace's organization:
  1. Notes on the organization of Lovelace
  2. The master outline of all the lessons
  3. The outline of sections in lesson 1

• Special areas of Lovelace:
  1. Information on how to program Java programs in Ada
  2. The home page for "Small", an Ada 95 demo program
  3. The unbounded Generic_Stack Example
  4. The Lovelace section on efficiency
  5. The Lovelace section on safety and Ada
  6. The Lovelace section on inspections
  7. Information about the author, David A. Wheeler

• General Ada-related information:
  1. The Lovelace section on Ada on-line resources
  2. The Lovelace bibliography
  3. A list of Ada tutorials
  4. The Ada Language Reference Manual
  5. The Ada Home Page (also called "HBAP")

• Information about Lovelace itself:
  1. What others are saying about Lovelace
  2. Statistics about the Lovelace tutorial
  3. Lovelace version information (this is Lovelace version 5.6)
  4. The paper Lovelace: An Ada 95 Tutorial (in postscript form), which describes Lovelace in more detail and was published in Ada Letters (November/December 1995)
  5. The user guide for mklesson, an HTML tutorial generator that was used to develop this tutorial
  6. Information on how to download Lovelace and use a ``local'' version
  7. A brief advertisement for Lovelace
  8. Legal details about this tutorial

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This page was last modified on 1-October-1996.