Ada and GNAT Pro Training

Course 4 - Ada Programming with GNAT Pro: Advanced Topics

Target Audience

Programmers interested in learning advanced Ada software development topics.
Programmers should be familiar with the content of Course 3.

Course Duration

5 Days

Workshop

Hands-on exercises using the GNAT Pro toolsuite

Course Description

This course is a continuation of Course 3. It covers Ada 95 and Ada 2005 support for Object-Oriented Programming, concurrency, and low-level and real-time programming. Students will understand how to use Ada effectively for systems programming and real-time applications, and how Ada fares as an Object-Oriented Language.

Summary of Topics Covered

- Object oriented programming concepts (object, class, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding)

- Object-oriented programming using tagged types (type extensions, class-wide programming, abstract types)

- Issues with concurrent programming

- Protected objects/types

- Task termination techniques

- Rendezvous

- Tasking idioms

- Data-oriented synchronization using protected types

- The predefined libraries

- Mixed-language programming (Annex B support for interfacing)

- Low-level programming

- Systems Programming and Real-Time Systems Annex

- Summary of other specialized needs annexes (distribution, information systems, numerics, high-integrity systems)