Evolving an Ada Curriculum to 9 X John Ryme r Loral Federal Systems, Bethesda, Md ., 301-493-146 3 email :rymerj@wmavm7,vnet .ibm .co m Background Loral Federal Systems Company (LFSC), formerly IBM Federal Systems Company , is one of industry's largest Ada users . LFSC has over 20 Ada projects under con tract with various international and U .S . Government agencies . These projects constitute a sizable software development effort (over 4m SLOC) . To help meet thes e requirements, an Ada curriculum with course development and teaching resource s was established within the IBM FSC Software Engineering Department in 1986 . Th e curriculum involves week-long hands-on (basic and advanced) language workshop s as well as topical seminars on basic and advanced Ada features that are presente d in both lecture and tape format . The hands-on courses are targeted principally a t designers and programmers . The seminars are targeted at engineers, analysts , testers and managers as well as programmers and designers . Over 2,500 IBM FS C employees were trained in aspects of the curriculum with approximately 1,70 0 attending the two hands-on workshops . With the pending advancement of Ada 9X standardization, the
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