John McCormick (University of Northern Iowa)
Ada, Model Railroading, and Software Engineering Education

Computer science educators can help recruit and educate good students by providing sound academic projects that put a real thrill into computing.  But how can a small student team specify, design, code, and test a 15,000 line real-time project in just 15 weeks?  By using Ada of course!  And using it to control a large model railroad.

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http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada99/Keynoters/McCormick.ppt
 

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