The Ada and Software Engineering CD-ROM set

If you plan to attend the Ada-Belgium'2000 Workshop on December 15, 2000, or Ada-Belgium's Ada course early 2001, a limited supply of full 4-disc Ada CD-ROM sets will be available for Ada-Belgium members (who didn't got one earlier) for free there.

The set consists of the 2-disc October 1999 update (special edition for SIGAda'99 and Ada-Belgium'99) and the November 1998 base release (a special edition for SIGAda'98 and Ada-Belgium'98).

(Should our supply run out, a limited number of copies of the previous special edition for Ada-Belgium'97 are also available.)

The contents of the following overview was extracted end of 1999 from http://www.cdrom.com/titles/prog/ada.htm
Information on the base CD-ROM set is still available via the Ada-Belgium'98 pages.

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Title: "Ada and Software Engineering (ASE)"

Description: "A Resource for the Practicing Software Engineer (regardless of implementation language) and the Practicing Ada Developer"

Date: "October 1999"

Credits: "Richard Conn, Editor"

"Members of the Software Engineering and Ada communities should not be without this library! With over 1G Bytes of documentation, information, web site indicies, Ada source code, and both general-purpose and Ada-oriented tools, this two-disc set is a valuable resource that addresses a wide variety of contemporary issues in Software Engineering field."

For the Practicing Software Engineer:
- Best practices in Software Engineering
- Useful web site listing (with actual links)
- Includes the Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model
- Hundreds of documents and tutorials on various topics in Software Engineering, including: Domain Engineering, Reuse, Requirements, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Development Methodologies (Waterfall, Spiral, Rapid Application Development), Formal Methods, Cleanroom, Complexity Analysis, Metrics, Capability Maturity, and Six Sigma
- General-purpose tools (such as GRASP Graphical Representation of Algorithms, Structures, and Processes for Ada, C, C++, Java, and VHDL from Auburn University with funding from ARPA and NASA)
- An introduction to Ada, a language specifically designed to support the engineering of large & small software systems, including safety-critical real-time software-intensive systems
For the Practicing Ada Developer:
- Ada95 Language Reference Manual and Rationale in Hypertext
- Useful web site listing (with actual links)
- Freeware Ada95 compilers and development environments for a variety of platforms, including Windows 95/98/NT and UNIX (such as GNAT Ada95 and C environment from Ada Core Technologies and ObjectAda from Aonix)
- Freeware Software components and tools
- Ada Semantic Interface Specification (ASIS)
- Support for Ada95 education, including tutorials and freeware tools (such as AdaGIDE from the United States Air Force Academy)
- Ada Advocacy material - why Ada is the preferred language for Software Engineering
- Ada background and historical information, user and developer notes, grapical icons, and other items of interest for the Ada enthusiast

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the Ada Course Home Page.

Last update: 2000/11/28.

Dirk Craeynest