Introducing Parallel Programming in Undergraduate Curriculum

Author

Brown, Cordelia M. ; Yung-Hsiang Lu ; Midkiff, Samuel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

20-24 May 2013

Firstpage

1269

Lastpage

1274

Abstract

This paper summarizes our experiences and findings in teaching the concepts of parallel computing in two undergraduate programming courses and an undergraduate hardware design course. The first is a junior-senior level elective course Object-Oriented Programming using C++ and Java. The second is a sophomore-level required course on Advanced C Programming. The third course, Introduction to Digital System Design, is also a sophomore-level required course. We will describe how parallel concepts have been integrated in the courses, the assessments, and the results.

Keywords

C++ language; Java; computer science education; educational courses; further education; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; teaching; C++; Introduction to Digital System Design; Java; advanced C programming; junior-senior level elective course; object-oriented programming; parallel computing; parallel programming; sophomore-level required course; undergraduate curriculum; undergraduate hardware design course; undergraduate programming courses; Computers; Hardware; Instruction sets; Java; Parallel processing; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW), 2013 IEEE 27th International

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.270

Filename

6651016