Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking Message-ID: <6227@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 00:14:44 GMT References: <2592@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 19 From genesch@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Eugene Schwartzman): >> The CACM article listed parallel programming as one of the 11 >> major topics; I would therefore assume that parallel programming >> would be covered for at least a week. > > Agreed, but not in a beginning level, maybe sophmore year. And then, > junior and senior level can be used for those that are seriously > interested in it. How are you going to explain to a student that can > barely understand how to write a decent algorithm, etc.. about parallel > programming. CACM referred to the *introductory* course, without regard for the year in which a student takes it. You can explain it very easily via analogy to human activities; the Producer sends lines to the Disassembler, who converts them into characters and passes them along to the Formatter, etc... Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu