Paper Info
Title
Integration of ICT in Concurrent and Parallel Programming Lectures.
Abstract
An effective teaching and learning in concurrent and parallel programming needs the presentation of short excerpts of code to students in a selected programming language during lectures. This is sometimes necessary to make understandable complicate syntactical constructs. Traditionally, these codes have been presented by the teacher to the students on a blackboard, with slides or by means any projection facilities, together with an oral description of their operation and significance. Teachers try to explain those syntactical constructs with more or less success and students do not usually test program code during lectures, nor can do any modifications to the programs, which are helpful in order to master difficult concepts of parallel programming and Concurrency. In the best possible scenario, students will carry out any tests on the real code of an example presented in lectures during practical lessons at the lab. Nevertheless, without a clear illustration of their actual behavior in a real computer program, any new concepts of concurrent constructs taught in lectures will remain fuzzy and prone to be forgotten. The presented approach consists of changing the traditional teaching and learning model of parallel programming into another where students will be equipped with multicore processors inside their laptops, which in addition to Virtual Campus services will serve to put into practice any programming code that illustrates a programming concept the minute it is presented during any lecture by the teacher to the class.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-27308-2_10
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Teaching innovation,Teaching improvement,Virtual campus,ICT integration,Lecturing model,Concurrent programming,Parallel programming,Code,Performance improvement,Interactive theoretical teaching,Students
Virtual campus,Computer science,Source code,Concurrency,Parallel computing,Fuzzy logic,Information and Communications Technology,Computer program,Concurrent computing,Multi-core processor
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9523
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio J. Tomeu-Hardasmal120.78
Alberto Salguero25913.55
Manuel I. Capel35217.35