ThreadMentor: a pedagogical tool for multithreaded programming

Authors

Steven Carr, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
Jean Mayo, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
Ching-Kuang Shene, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2003

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

ThreadMentor is a multiplatform pedagogical tool designed to ease the difficulty in teaching and learning multithreaded programming. It consists of a C++ class library and a visualization system. The class library supports many thread management functions and synchronization primitives in an object-oriented way, and the visualization system is activated automatically by a user program and shows the inner working of every thread and every synchronization primitive on-the-fly. Events can also be saved for playback. In this way, students will be able to visualize the dynamic behavior of a threaded program and the interaction among threads and synchronization primitives.

Publisher's Statement

© 2003 ACM. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1145/958795.958796

Publication Title

Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)

Recommended Citation

Carr, S., Mayo, J., & Shene, C. (2003). ThreadMentor: a pedagogical tool for multithreaded programming. Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), 3(1), 1-30. http://doi.org/10.1145/958795.958796
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