Welcome to the Ada95 Lovelace 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 looking at the first tutorial section.

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. How to receive automatic notification of Lovelace updates
  8. 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

• 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 5.8)
  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. Information on the book version of this tutorial, titled Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial (now out of print).
  8. A brief advertisement for Lovelace
  9. Legal details about this tutorial

Please pass on Lovelace's primary URL to anyone interested in learning more about Ada. Lovelace's primary URL (address) is "http://www.dwheeler.com/lovelace".

Its previous URLs were http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html and http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html

You may be using an older version of this tutorial if you are not accessing it through its primary URL.

This page was last modified on 18-June-1998.