Thinking parallel: the process of learning concurrency

Authors:
Mordechai Ben-Ari;Yifat Ben-David Kolikant
Affiliations:
Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel;Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel
Venue:
ITiCSE '99 Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
1999

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Abstract

This paper describes a course in concurrent and distributed computing for high school students and empirical research that was done to study students' conceptions and attitudes. We found that both their conceptions and their work methods evolved during course to the point that they were able to successfully develop algorithms and to prove their correctness. Students initially found the course extremely challenging but eventually came to appreciate its relevance and its contribution to improving their cognitive skills.