Programming and Problem Solving with Ada 95 provides a solid introduction to programming while introducing the capabilities of Ada 95 and its syntax without overwhelming the student. The book focuses on the development of good programming habits. This text offers superior pedagogy that has long defined computer science education, including problem solving case studies, testing and debugging sections, quick checks, exam preparation, programming warm-up exercises, and programming problems. The extensive coverage of material in such a student-friendly resource means that more rigor, more theory, greater use of abstraction and modeling, and the earlier application of software engineering principles can be employed.

Ada is among the richest languages in use today for developing large software systems. Increasingly, it is becoming the language of choice for teaching the fundamentals of program design, algorithm development and problem-solving techniques.

This book describes in detail a series of new strategies to solve problems, mainly in mathematics. New techniques are presented which have been tested in class by the author for over thirty years. These techniques advance the state-of-the-art in problem solving and extend existing methods of such great mathematicians and cognitive psychologists such as G. Polya, H.A. Simon, W. Wickelgren, and J. Greeno. The book provides each technique with a detailed description and then illustrates it through a number of problems spanning a wide spectrum of mathematical areas.

In this third edition, educators Michael Feldman and Elliot Koffman continue to refine and enhance their balanced presentation of modern programming concepts and Ada 95 language capabilities. Students with no prior programming experience will begin to program with this interesting and powerful yet flexible language that is used in the Boeing 777 and Airbus 340, the International Space Station the European high-speed rail system, and many other major projects around the world. This text includes a CD-ROM containing versions of the GNU Ada 95 compiler (GNAT), program development tools, and high-resolution graphics support for the Windows, DOS, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. GNAT supports the full Ada 95 language as standardized by the ISO and the ANSI.