Teaching concurrency with Joyce and Linda

  • Authors:
  • Chris McDonald

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '92 Proceedings of the twenty-third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

To overcome the difficulty of demonstrating the principles of concurrency with limited parallel computing resources, a concurrent programming language has been designed and implemented which uses the Linda parallel programming paradigm. The language executes under the UNIX operating system and is supported by an X-windows based viewer of programs undergoing concurrent execution. This paper describes the language, its compiler and execution environment and experiences gained in using the language in a third year undergraduate course over the last two years.