Introduction to the special issue on concurrent and parallel programming
Mordechai Ben‐Ari, Dan Garcia, Tom Murphy · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 2013
Much of computing education research is devoted to introductory computer science. The articles in this special issue look at the other end of the spectrum: learning advanced subjects, here, concurrent, parallel and distributed computation. The articles present four approaches for teaching these subjects using infra-structure that is feasible for educational institutions to acquire: MapReduce in a cloud, remote computing on a multicore system, a network of gaming consoles, and software modeling using formal specification.