How students develop concurrent programs

Authors:
Jan Lönnberg;Anders Berglund;Lauri Malmi
Affiliations:
Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland;Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
Venue:
ACE '09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 95
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a qualitative, explorative study of how students approach developing and testing concurrent programs. The study is based on interviews with students working on the final programming assignment in a concurrent programming course. We discuss the effects of the students' approaches to constructing and testing programs on their work, how teaching can be improved to support the students in performing these tasks more effectively and how software tools can be designed to support the development, testing and debugging of concurrent programs.