Understanding concurrent programming through program animation

Authors:
M. Zimmermann;F. Perrenoud;A. Schiper
Affiliations:
Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland;Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland;Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale, Switzerland
Venue:
SIGCSE '88 Proceedings of the nineteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1988

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Abstract

Program animation has mainly been developed for sequential programs. Animation of concurrent programs is much more uncommon, mainly because of the important technical problems. This paper presents a project whose objective is to animate any concurrent program written in the language Portal, a real time language close to Modula. The usefulness of animation in the context of teaching is shown by a few examples.