Experience with the language SR in an undergraduate operating systems course

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Experience with the language SR in an undergraduate operating systems course

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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the twenty-third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Pages: 176 - 180

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-468-6

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Stephen J. Hartley

Math and Computer Science Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In undergraduate operating systems classes, students learn about concurrent process synchronization, including such things as shared data, race conditions, critical sections, mutual exclusion, semaphores, monitors, and the test-and-set hardware instruction. They also study interprocess communication, message passing, rendezvous, and remote procedure calls. Solutions to classical problems, such as the dining philosophers, producers and consumers, bounded buffers, and readers and writers, are presented using the above concepts. However, students need to write programs in a language that provides facilities for concurrent programming in order to appreciate fully the above concepts. This paper describes the SR language and discusses its successful use as an environment for concurrent programming in an undergraduate operating systems class.

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	1	Harvey M. Deitel, An introduction to operating systems (2nd ed.), Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1990
	2	Abraham Silberschatz , James L. Peterson , Peter B. Galvin, Operating system concepts (3rd ed.), Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1991
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	4	Gregory R. Andrews , Michael Coffin , Irving Elshoff , Kelvin Nilson , Gregg Townsend , Ronald A. Olsson , Titus Purdin, An overview of the SR language and implementation, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), v.10 n.1, p.51-86, Jan. 1988 [doi>10.1145/42192.42324]
	5	Gregory R. Andrews and Ronald A. Olsson, "Report on the SR Language Version 1.1," TP~ 89-6, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, May 1989.

CITED BY 5

	Stephen J. Hartley, Animating operating systems algorithms with XTANGO, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.26 n.1, p.344-348, March 1994
	Stephen J. Hartley, Integrating XTANGO's animator into the SR concurrent programming language, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.29 n.4, p.67-70, Nov. 1995
	Stephen J. Hartley, A hypermedia lab manual for operating systems: using the network to teach, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.28 n.SI, p.8-10, 1996
	Ronald A. Olsson , Carole M. McNamee, Tools for teaching CCRs, monitors, and CSP concurrent programming concepts, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.27 n.2, p.31-40, June 1995
	Christopher H. Nevison, Parallel Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Computer, v.28 n.12, p.51-56, December 1995