Teaching Concurrency Leslie Lamport Silicon Valley Research Center Microsoft I am not an academic. I have never even taken a computer science course. However, I have worked with a number of computer engineers (both hardware and software engineers), and I have seen what they knew and what they didn t know that I felt they should have. So, I have some thoughts about how concurrent computing should be taught. I am not concerned with traditional questions of curriculum what facts should be stuffed into the student s brain. I long ago forgot most of the facts that I learned in school. What I have used throughout my career are the ways of thinking I learned when I was young, by some learning process that I have never understood. I can t claim to know the best way to teach computer engineers how to cope with concurrency. I do know that what they seem to be learning now is not helping them very much. I believe that what I am proposing here is worth a try. I expect that the rst question most computer scientists would ask about the teaching of concurrency is, what programming language should be used?
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Teaching concurrency
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