http://nflath.com/2009/11/3b-courses/ Technology-related ideas, mainly involving Emacs Tue, 22 May 2012 08:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://nflath.com/2009/11/3b-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-644 Garret Kelly Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:36:52 +0000 http://nflath.com/?p=497#comment-644 I wholeheartedly agree with everything you say about uC++, but I don't know that a higher-level language (at least, a language higher-level than uC++) is the way to go about teaching the course. I think a lot of the struggle for people last term in RTOS was due to there not being a deep enough understanding of the fundamental problems of concurrency. A lot of the higher-level languages that I know you like really hide the dirty work of concurrency. Maybe I'm just outright biased, but I think a course where they hand us GCC and pthreads and make us re-do all of the CS343 assignments thus far would enlighten a lot of people. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you say about uC++, but I don’t know that a higher-level language (at least, a language higher-level than uC++) is the way to go about teaching the course. I think a lot of the struggle for people last term in RTOS was due to there not being a deep enough understanding of the fundamental problems of concurrency. A lot of the higher-level languages that I know you like really hide the dirty work of concurrency. Maybe I’m just outright biased, but I think a course where they hand us GCC and pthreads and make us re-do all of the CS343 assignments thus far would enlighten a lot of people.

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