TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking parallel
T2 - The process of learning concurrency
AU - Ben-Ari, Mordechai
AU - Kolikant, Yifat Ben David
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper describes a course in concurrent and distributed computing for high school students and empirical research that was done to study students' conceptions and attitudes. We found that both their conceptions and their work methods evolved during course to the point that they were able to successfully develop algorithms and to prove their correctness. Students initially found the course extremely challenging but eventually came to appreciate its relevance and its contribution to improving their cognitive skills.
AB - This paper describes a course in concurrent and distributed computing for high school students and empirical research that was done to study students' conceptions and attitudes. We found that both their conceptions and their work methods evolved during course to the point that they were able to successfully develop algorithms and to prove their correctness. Students initially found the course extremely challenging but eventually came to appreciate its relevance and its contribution to improving their cognitive skills.
KW - Concurrency
KW - Distributed programming
KW - Mental models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0012095312&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/384267.305831
DO - 10.1145/384267.305831
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AN - SCOPUS:0012095312
SN - 0097-8418
VL - 31
SP - 13
EP - 16
JO - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
JF - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
IS - 3
ER -