Commonsense Understanding of Concurrency: Computing Students and Concert Tickets.
The article presents information on a study which investigated the teaching of concurrency in computer science. Two groups of computer science students were asked to come up with solutions to concurrency problems involving the sale of concert tickets. One group was composed of relatively advanced st...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 60 - 71 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
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