Designing an undergraduate curriculum based on parallelism and concurrency

Authors:
Jaime Niño
Affiliations:
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The multi-core revolution has brought forth the pressing issue of deciding where in the curriculum to introduce parallel programming. At least 3 different strategies can be found, including the current one used, where concurrent programming is taught in Operating Systems. It is the position of this paper that we can embrace the 3 strategies and present parallelism as a fundamental notion in computing throughout the curriculum. We analyse curriculum directions, present parameters to consider to introduce parallelism, as well as a spiral approach to the subject starting in CS2.