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Facilitating the learning process in parallel computing by using instant messaging
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Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Lidia Sánchez-González, Miguel Ángel Conde, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Manuel Castejón-Limas, Nicolai PetkovAuthors Info & Claims
Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Lidia Sánchez-González, Miguel Ángel Conde, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Manuel Castejón-Limas, Nicolai PetkovAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 558 - 563
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Parallel Programming skills may require long time to acquire. "Think in parallel" is a skill which requires time, effort, and experience. In this work, we propose to facilitate the learning process in parallel programming by using instant messaging by students. Our aim is to find out if students' interaction through instant messaging is beneficial for the learning process. We asked several students of an HPC course of the Master's degree in Computer Science to develop a specific parallel application, each of them using a different application program interface: OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, or OpenCL. Even though the used APIs are different, there are common points in the design process. We proposed to these students to interact with each other by using Gitter, an instant messaging tool for GitHub users. Our analysis of the communications and results demonstrate that the direct interaction of students through the Gitter tool has a positive impact on the learning process.
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