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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
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Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking
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Date: 10 Aug 89 00:14:44 GMT
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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