Breadth in depth: A 1st year introduction to parallel programming

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 435-440

  Gross, Thomas R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CS education; Parallel programming; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CS EDUCATION; DESIGN GOAL; ENGINEERING-ORIENTED; EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION; IMPLICIT COMMUNICATIONS; KEY ISSUES; PARALLEL PROGRAM; SHARED DATA; SHARED MEMORIES; UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMMUNICATION; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79954451217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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