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The Course

• A conventional course on concurrent programming using Java.
• Textbook: Steve Hartley's Concurrent Programming with Java (Oxford U. Press, 1998)

• 10 weeks, 30 hours (20 class meetings)
• Six homework assignments, one midterm (not held in group lab), final exam -- all conventional.
• Homework submitted electronically via WebCT.

Use of Groupwork Lab

• Assigned reading must be done before class occurs
• Lecture notes released via WebCT to class
• Class periods typically consist of brief "introductory talk" by instructor
• Students then download lab instructions from WebCT and begin work

Groupwork Assignments

• Some questions require discussion and a written answer
• Factual recall
• "What happens when this program is executed?"
• "Design a program to solve the following problem..."
• Others (very few, in fact) require programming
  • Since the class periods were only 90 minutes, full-blown programming projects couldn't be done
• Tended to stick with design rather than implementation after a few labs where Java thread programming was introduced.
• Out-of-class homework assignments gave opportunity for writing full programs.