Jan Erik Erik Moström
ABSTRACT
We interviewed eight students to better understand what kind of difficulties students have when learning concurrent programming. According to these interviews students does not consider concurrency to be radically more difficult than other Computer Science subjects - something that is in contrast to many research papers. Instead the students found concurrency to be an interesting and fun subject that they considered to be approximately equal in difficulty to other subjects. For some, the added complexity only acted as inspiring challenge.
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- J. E. Moström. Students experience of learning concurrency. In preparation, 2011.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Student views on learning concurrency
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