Anthropology of semaphores

Yifat Ben David Kolikant; Mordechai Ben-Ari; Sarah Pollack

doi:10.1145/353519.343061

Anthropology of semaphores

Yifat Ben David Kolikant^*, Mordechai Ben-Ari, Sarah Pollack

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This paper describes research into the conceptions of students studying concurrency, using qualitative methods that originated in anthropological field work. We were able to obtain a deep understanding of students' mental models of semaphores: they construct consistent, though non-viable, models of semaphores, and they use them in patterns without understanding the synchronization context. We used the results to improve our teaching of concurrency, for example, by carefully defining the semaphore model and exercising the model outside of a problem-solving context.

Original language	English
Pages	21-24
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/353519.343061
State	Published - 2000
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 5th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE 2000) - Helsinki, Finl Duration: 11 Jul 2000 → 13 Jul 2000

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Conference	Proceedings of the 5th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE 2000)
City	Helsinki, Finl
Period	11/07/00 → 13/07/00

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