Title :
The Spanish Parallel Programming Contests and its Use as an Educational Resource
Author :
Almeida, Francisco ; Cuenca, Javier ; Fernandez-Pascual, Ricardo ; Giménez, Domingo ; Benito, Juan Alejandro Palomino
Abstract :
The first Spanish Parallel Programming Contest was organized in September 2011 within the Spanish Jornadas de Paralelismo. The aim of the contest is to disseminate parallelism among Computer Science students. The website and the material generated can be used for educational purposes. This paper comments on the organization of the contest and summarizes some training activities in which the material of the contest is being or can be used.
Keywords :
computer science education; parallel programming; Computer Science students; Spanish Jornadas de Paralelismo; Spanish parallel programming contests; Website; contest organization; educational purpose; educational resource; training activity; Educational institutions; Graphics processing unit; Materials; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Online judge; Parallel algorithms; Parallel programming; Programming contests;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW), 2012 IEEE 26th International
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0974-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.160
