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From: genesch@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Eugene Schwartzman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Coverage of multitasking
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Date: 9 Aug 89 19:42:07 GMT
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In article <6217@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) writes:
>From genesch@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Eugene Schwartzman):
>> what do you define as overview.  Just stating the fact that something 
>> like that exists and what it is?  
>
>    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.  As somebody has stated, first you crawl, then you walk,
	then you run..  I would classify what you stated as a jog :-)
	Granted, now most of the crawling is done in H.S. :-), but you would
	not want to penalize those that didn'e have computer education in H.S.

gene schwartzman
genesch@aplvax.jhuapl.edu
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