Understanding concurrent programming through program animation

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Understanding concurrent programming through program animation

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

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 27 - 31

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-89791-256-X

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M. Zimmermann	Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland
F. Perrenoud	Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland
A. Schiper	Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland

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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

Program animation has mainly been developed for sequential programs. Animation of concurrent programs is much more uncommon, mainly because of the important technical problems. This paper presents a project whose objective is to animate any concurrent program written in the language Portal, a real time language close to Modula. The usefulness of animation in the context of teaching is shown by a few examples.

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