SV: [GAP] GAP e-newletter

[Kathryn Fairlamb]

Hi Lars,
Your GAP n° is ACT#2000, the login is lars.asplund at mdh.se and I have 
reset your password to 7b23RStu
Remember to login to GNATtracker from the Academic page and not the home 
page of the website.
Hope this helps,
Kathy

Lars Asplund wrote:

>Dear Kathryn,
>
>Once again, I have put the GAP-number and password so I cannot find it. Can
>you update me. We are just about to start a new course, and gps and gnat
>will be installed on a new set of student machines.
>
>/Lars
>
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>Skickat: den 15 januari 2007 10:51
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>Ämne: [GAP] GAP e-newletter
>
>A Happy New Year to you all!
>
>AdaCore is please to present the first GAP e-newsletter!
>
>Planned for release on a twice-yearly basis, the aim of the newsletter 
>is to provide GAP members with a concise summary of new GAP tools and 
>features, highlight recent and upcoming academically-oriented events, 
>and share tips in order to help you and your students benefit as much as 
>possible from the products and services available through the program.
>
>Happy reading!
>
>The AdaCore Team
>
>*********************************************
>CONTENTS
>
>Ada 2005 uptake in the GAP community
>Next GNAT GPL release 2007
>Ada Intern Program update
>'Programming in Ada 2005', by John Barnes - 10% discount on further orders
>Coming soon -  Ada 2005 Jewel of the Week!
>Upcoming events
>Spotlight on the University of Northern Iowa
>New members
>
>***
>ADA 2005 UPTAKE IN THE GAP COMMUNITY
>
>One of the most exciting developments in 2006 was the arrival of the new 
>revision of the language, Ada 2005. The current GNAT GPL version 
>available for GAP members enables professors and students to benefit 
>from almost all of the new features introduced in Ada 2005, including 
>improvements to the Object Oriented model, more flexible access types, 
>enhanced structure and sisibility control, Real-Time Annex-D 
>improvements (including the Ravenscar profile),  improvements to 
>exceptions, numerics and generics, and extensions to the standard library.
>
>Several GAP members have already integrated elements of the new language 
>revision in their courses. Among them are:
>Naval Postgraduate School, USA (Programming Paradigms class);
>Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (Real-Time Systems course);
>University of Northern Iowa, USA (Data Structures course);
>University of Padua, Italy, (some Master-level projects);
>University of Sydney, Australia (Real-Time Computing course).
>
>Feel free to share your Ada 2005 teaching experiences with the GAP 
>community at any time via the GAP discussion list at gap at adacore.info
>
>***
>NEXT GNAT GPL RELEASE 2007
>
>You can look forward to the new GNAT GPL release later this year, 
>incorporating even more Ada 2005 features. The exact date is yet to be 
>fixed, but is sure to happen before the summer, in order to give you 
>plenty of time to update your courses for the next academic year.
>
>***
>ADA INTERN PROGRAM UPDATE
>
>Signing up for the Ada Intern Program will soon be available to your 
>students when they download the GNAT GPL Edition via the Libre site at 
>https://libre2.adacore.com/. Participation in this program, whose 
>purpose is to bring together Ada knowledgeable students and AdaCore 
>customers searching for Ada knowledgeable interns, is currently reserved 
>for teachers only on behalf of their students, via GNAT Tracker. We hope 
>that the new framework will encourage students to be more proactive in 
>targeting Ada specific projects in their search for qualitative work 
>experience.
>
>Look for an announcement of this new student service in February 2007.
>
>***
>PROGRAMMING IN ADA 2005, by John Barnes - 10% DISCOUNT ON FURTHER ORDERS
>
>AdaCore was very happy to be able to offer each GAP member a free copy 
>of the latest updated edition of John Barnes's highly successful 
>'Programming in Ada' series, titled (unsurprisingly yet accurately!) 
>'Programming in Ada 2005'.
>
>Now, GAP members and Ada students can continue to benefit from discount 
>prices on further copies of the book by following the link from the 
>Academic homepage on the AdaCore website at 
>http://www.adacore.com/home/academia/. If you are a new GAP member and 
>have not received your free copy, please contact AdaCore at 
>gap-contact at adacore.com.
>
>Note that a range of books, teaching materials and lab materials are 
>available for download free of charge, courtesy of their authors, from 
>the "Contributions" page of GNAT Tracker.
>
>***
>COMING SOON - ADA 2005 JEWEL OF THE WEEK!
>
>We plan to launch in January, via the GAP discussion list at 
>gap at adacore.info, a series of weekly tips on how to discover the 
>multitude of hidden jewels in Ada 2005. These gems, initially offered by 
>AdaCore experts, will aim to cover a range of subjects such as the 
>limited_with clause, mutually recursive types, interfaces, anonymous 
>access types, and the containers library.
>
>Do not hesitate to share your own Ada gems with other members of the GAP 
>community via the discussion list.
>
>***
>UPCOMING EVENTS
>
>Below are the forthcoming academia-oriented events which AdaCore intends 
>to support. Please let your fellow GAP members know, via the Discussion 
>List at gap at adacore.info, if you are planning to attend and/or present a 
>paper at any of the following:
>
>SIGCSE, March 7-10, 2007, Kentucky, USA
>http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/index.shtml
>Following the success of last year's event (1200 attendees!), AdaCore 
>will again be exhibiting at this event.
>
>Ada Europe, June 25-29, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
>Last year's event in Porto, Portugal was very well attended by the GAP 
>community, as well as by AdaCore staff! AdaCore will again be actively 
>participating in this year's event, a cornerstone in the Ada community 
>calendar.
>
>We look forward to seeing you there!
>
>***
>SPOTLIGHT ON .... THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA
>
>In each newsletter, we intend to place a different GAP member in the 
>spotlight and show how and why Ada is being used for teaching purposes 
>in universities around the world. In this first edition, the spotlight 
>is on the University of Northern Iowa, and the Department of Prof. John 
>McCormick.
>
>Signing up for GAP was a natural decision for UNI and for Prof. 
>McCormick, since he has been using Ada and GNAT in Computer Science 
>courses there since 1997. GNAT was first selected for an upper-division 
>course on concurrent programming, where it was enthusiatically embraced 
>by students and faculty. GNAT and Ada are currently being used in a 
>traditional data structures course, and will likely be adopted in a 
>fundamentals course that focuses on software engineering.
>
>"The GAP toolset is installed on all computers in our public 
>laboratories. It is used in our CS3 (Data Structures) couse and by 
>students who have a choice of programming language in other courses. 
>Students commonly use Ada/GAP in Algorithms and Operating Systems."
>
>***
>NEW MEMBERS!!
>
>And finally, 2006 saw a continued steady growth of the GAP community, 
>which currently stands at 140 members, from 121 schools and universities 
>in 25 countries. A particular welcome to our newest members:
>
>California Polytechnic State University, CA, USA
>Carroll College, WI, USA
>Cranfield University, United Kingdom
>ENST Bretagne, France
>George Mason University, VA, USA
>Indiana Wesleyan University, IN, USA
>James Madison University, VA, USA
>Lenoir-Rhyne College, NC, USA
>Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore
>Poznan University of Technology, Poland
>Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
>Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA
>St. Thomas University, FL, USA
>Texas A&M, TX, USA
>Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany
>Truman State University, MO, USA
>University of Alaska, AK, USA
>University of Bari, Italy
>University of Idaho, ID, USA
>University of Illinois at Springfield, IL, USA
>University of Maryland, MD, USA
>University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
>University of Zielona Gora, Poland
>UPMF-IUT2, Grenoble
>Voronezh State University, Russian Federation
>
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