Teaching about threading: where and what?

ABSTRACT

Trends in hardware and software are increasing the importance of concurrent programming, in the skill set expected of graduates. The curriculum is fairly full already, so teachers face complicated trade-offs in deciding how to incorporate additional material related to concurrency. In this paper we discuss some of the different ways to cover thread programming; we also survey the literature on this topic from the Computing Education community.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
      D.1.3 Concurrent Programming

  F. Theory of Computation
  F.1 COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES
      F.1.2 Modes of Computation
          Subjects: Parallelism and concurrency

General Terms:
Design, Documentation