Teaching about threading: where and what?

  • Authors:
  • Alan D. Fekete

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2009

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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.