An Entertaining Approach to Parallel Programming Education

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8425432" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8425432</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2018.00065" target="_blank" >10.1109/IPDPSW.2018.00065</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

An Entertaining Approach to Parallel Programming Education

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Despite the facts that multicore CPUs are present in virtually every personal computer or cell phone and distributed systems in the form of cloud services are steadily penetrating various domains of our lives, only a minority of programmers and computer science graduates are able to effectively design and develop parallel and distributed applications. Serial thinking is natural to all humans and it is also encouraged by many computer science curricula. Even though that leading educational institutions are attempting to rectify this trend by introducing parallel programming courses into their study programs, these courses are often dedicated for more experienced students in their fourth of fifth year since mastering modern parallel technologies like OpenMP or CUDA requires certain level of programming skills. It can be argued, that the parallel thinking should be taught much sooner, perhaps even before tertiary education. To this end, we have created an educational platform Parapple that aims to introduce parallelism and related problems like load balancing or synchronization to inexperienced programmers in an entertaining form. Our platform is web-based, so it can run in any modern browser on all operating systems without installation and the users are required to have only a very basic understanding of structural imperative programming.

Název v anglickém jazyce

An Entertaining Approach to Parallel Programming Education

Popis výsledku anglicky

Despite the facts that multicore CPUs are present in virtually every personal computer or cell phone and distributed systems in the form of cloud services are steadily penetrating various domains of our lives, only a minority of programmers and computer science graduates are able to effectively design and develop parallel and distributed applications. Serial thinking is natural to all humans and it is also encouraged by many computer science curricula. Even though that leading educational institutions are attempting to rectify this trend by introducing parallel programming courses into their study programs, these courses are often dedicated for more experienced students in their fourth of fifth year since mastering modern parallel technologies like OpenMP or CUDA requires certain level of programming skills. It can be argued, that the parallel thinking should be taught much sooner, perhaps even before tertiary education. To this end, we have created an educational platform Parapple that aims to introduce parallelism and related problems like load balancing or synchronization to inexperienced programmers in an entertaining form. Our platform is web-based, so it can run in any modern browser on all operating systems without installation and the users are required to have only a very basic understanding of structural imperative programming.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

2018 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)

ISBN

978-1-5386-5555-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

340-346

Název nakladatele

IEEE

Místo vydání

Neuveden

Místo konání akce

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Datum konání akce

21. 5. 2018

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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