hcc@cs.olemiss.edu (Conrad Cunningham) (01/03/91)
I am developing a new course on "concurrent programming" targeted at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The prerequisite for the course will probably be our introductory operating systems course. For this course I want to emphasize concurrency concepts and programming techniques rather than survey the available architectures and languages. I would like a significant component of this course to be programming exercises--a sequence of several small exercises focussing on various techniques rather than one or two larger projects. The computing equipment available on my department's ethernet includes a network of 386- and 286-based PCs, a small PC-hosted transputer system, and a heterogeneous collection of Unix systems (Sun 3 and 4, AT&T 3B2, ESIX on a 386). Various mainframe systems are also available outside through the University's computer center (IBM, CDC, soon Cray). The only system that can be dedicated to this class is the transputer. Typical students will be familiar with the Pascal and C programming languages when they enroll in the course. * What books do you suggest as possible texts? Most of the books that I have seen either consist of a survey of languages and/or architectures or focus on one system not available to my students. * What about software to support this class? * Any comments on the content or approach that should be taken in this course? I'll post a summary of the responses that I receive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H. Conrad Cunningham | Title: Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer & Info. Science | Telephone: (601) 232-5358 Fax: 232-7010 The University of Mississippi | Internet: cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu 302 Weir Hall |-------------------------------------------- University, MS 38677 U.S.A. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. H. Conrad Cunningham | Title: Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer & Info. Science | Telephone: (601) 232-5358 Fax: 232-7010 The University of Mississippi | Internet: cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu