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Making parallel programming accessible to inexperienced programmers through cooperative learning

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 1

Pages 224 - 228

https://doi.org/10.1145/366413.364589

Published: 01 February 2001 Publication History

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This paper describes how we utilized cooperative learning to meet the practical challenges of teaching parallel programming in the early college years, as well as to provide a more real world context to the course. Our main contribution is a set of cooperative group activities for both inside and outside the classroom, which are targeted to the computer science discipline, have received very positive student feedback, are easy to implement, and achieve a number of learning objectives beyond knowledge of the specific topic. These activities can be applied directly or be easily adapted to other computer science courses, particularly programming, systems, and experimental computer science courses.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 1

March 2001

432 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/366413

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John Impagliazzo
103 Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

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SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
February 2001
456 pages
ISBN:1581133294
DOI:10.1145/364447
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Grinnell College
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College of Charleston
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Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo
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Univ. of Hartford

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