No, French institution in the late 90s. At that time, common choices for beginner languages were C/C++, which weren't that great compared to Ada. Usual criticism was that Ada wasn't mainstream but I think it was a good pedagogical choice nonetheless (and it's not like we're learning only one programming language anyway). It taught me to think in terms of abstract data types without the added complexity of class-based languages.
Eventually, they switched to Java who became popular around that time.
I agree, I think it's a great pedagogical language for teaching a lot of concepts. Our algorithms and data structures course was taught in it. It was great for learning real-time systems as its built in concurrancy primitives are so good.
Eventually, they switched to Java who became popular around that time.