A project based approach to teaching parallel systems

Authors:
Alistair P. Rendell
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Venue:
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
Year:
2006

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Abstract

For several years we have delivered advanced undergraduate courses related to computational science using a traditional approach of lectures, laboratory exercises and assignments. In recent years, however, we have moved away from this towards project based approaches. In this paper we discuss our attempts to structure a course in parallel systems around a group project that required the students design, build and evaluate their own message passing environment.