The SOM family: virtual machines for teaching and research

Authors:
Michael Haupt;Robert Hirschfeld;Tobias Pape;Gregor Gabrysiak;Stefan Marr;Arne Bergmann;Arvid Heise;Matthias Kleine;Robert Krahn
Affiliations:
Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper introduces the SOM (Simple Object Machine) family of virtual machine (VM) implementations, a collection of VMs for the same Smalltalk dialect addressing students at different levels of expertise. Starting from a Java-based implementation, several ports of the VM to different programming languages have been developed and put to successful use in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels since 2006. Moreover, the VMs have been used in various research projects. The paper documents the rationale behind each of the SOM VMs and results that have been achieved in teaching and research.