%0 Generic %1 MulticoreProgramming %A Van Cutsem, Tom %A Marr, Stefan %A De Meuter, Wolfgang %B Workshop on Curricula for Concurrency and Parallelism %D 2010 %K MeMyPublication clojure concurrency course erlang immutability myown parallelism teaching %P 3 %T A Language-oriented Approach to Teaching Concurrency %U http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-12.pdf %X This paper argues in favour of a language-oriented approach to teach the principles of concurrency to graduate students. Over the past years, the popularity of programming lan- guages that promote a functional programming style has steadily grown. We want to promote the use of such lan- guages as the appropriate basic tools to deal with the “mul- ticore revolution”. We describe some of these programming languages and highlight two of them: Erlang and Clojure. We use these languages in a new graduate-level course that we will teach starting next academic year. Our goal is not to convince the reader that Erlang and Clojure are the best possible choices among this pool of candidate languages. Rather, our goal is to promote a functional programming style to tackle concurrency issues, and to teach this style in a programming language that makes it easy, straightforward and convenient to use that style. We do not want to get bogged down in a discussion on the usefulness or importance of learning new programming languages. For a good summary of the diverse advantages of studying new programming languages, we refer to a recent white paper by the ACM SIGPLAN education board 6.

@presentation{MulticoreProgramming, abstract = {This paper argues in favour of a language-oriented approach to teach the principles of concurrency to graduate students. Over the past years, the popularity of programming lan- guages that promote a functional programming style has steadily grown. We want to promote the use of such lan- guages as the appropriate basic tools to deal with the “mul- ticore revolution”. We describe some of these programming languages and highlight two of them: Erlang and Clojure. We use these languages in a new graduate-level course that we will teach starting next academic year. Our goal is not to convince the reader that Erlang and Clojure are the best possible choices among this pool of candidate languages. Rather, our goal is to promote a functional programming style to tackle concurrency issues, and to teach this style in a programming language that makes it easy, straightforward and convenient to use that style. We do not want to get bogged down in a discussion on the usefulness or importance of learning new programming languages. For a good summary of the diverse advantages of studying new programming languages, we refer to a recent white paper by the ACM SIGPLAN education board [6].}, added-at = {2010-11-07T14:16:16.000+0100}, author = {Van Cutsem, Tom and Marr, Stefan and De Meuter, Wolfgang}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d34bf3515af0d293bdc98e727d4ef2a5/gron}, booktitle = {Workshop on Curricula for Concurrency and Parallelism}, day = 17, interhash = {fbe640af05dfdd44636b03c67f3ded79}, intrahash = {d34bf3515af0d293bdc98e727d4ef2a5}, keywords = {MeMyPublication clojure concurrency course erlang immutability myown parallelism teaching}, month = {October}, pages = 3, pdf = {http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-12.pdf}, series = {CCP'10}, timestamp = {2018-08-26T17:39:42.000+0200}, title = {A Language-oriented Approach to Teaching Concurrency}, url = {http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-12.pdf}, year = 2010 }