Ada Books

Ada Distilled (PDF Link)

This book is aimed at experienced programmers who want to learn Ada at the programming level. It is not a '...for dummies' book, nor is it intended as a program design book. Instead, it highlights some key features of the Ada language, with coded examples, that are essential for getting started as an Ada programmer.

The Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming

This document covers basic software development on Linux, a review of the core Ada 95 language, and an introduction to designing programs that work with the Linux kernel and standard C libraries. It also covers some of the Ada bindings that exist for packages like Motif, TCL and GTK+.

Ada in Action

Seven chapters with practical programming examples.

Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming

This is a free online Ada95 book aimed at the beginning programmer learning Ada 95 as a first language.

Ada 95 Reference Manual

This is a hypertext version of the revised international standard (ISO/IEC 8652:1995): Information Technology -- Programming Languages -- Ada

Ada-95: A guide for C and C++ programmers

This document is written primarily for C and C++ programmers and is set out to describe the Ada programming language in a way more accessible to them.