Title
Towards concrete concurrency: occam-pi on the LEGO mindstorms
Abstract
In a world of ad-hoc networks, highly interconnected mobile devices and increasingly large supercomputer clusters, students need models of computation that help them think about dynamic and concurrent systems. Many of the tools currently available for introducing students to concurrency are difficult to use and are not intrinsically motivating. To provide an authentic, hands-on, and enjoyable introduction to concurrency, we have ported occam π, a language whose expressive powers are especially compelling for describing communicating dynamic reactive processes, to the LEGO Mindstorms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1047344.1047485
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Keywords
Field
DocType
expressive power,computer programming,model of computation,ad hoc network,intrinsic motivation,csp,concurrency,mobile device
Programming language,Supercomputer,Concurrency,Computer science,occam-π,occam,Mobile device,Model of computation,Porting,Computer programming
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
1
0097-8418
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-997-7
7
0.81
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian L. Jacobsen1163.00
Matthew C. Jadud224319.14