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Welcome to the wiki for CSE 231 Introduction to Parallel and Concurrent Programming at Washington University in St. Louis.

Calendar

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Course Setup

We will use educational videos made by Rice University as prep work for the course. Sign up for an account here.

You will also need to set up some software for the course. Refer to the articles below for help.

• Software setup
• OpenCV3
  • Homebrew
  • Chocolatey

Studios and Assignments

These studios and assignments are organized in chronological order.

1. Assignment: Nucleobase Counting
   • Studio: MergeSort
2. Assignment: SimpleList and SimpleMap Assignment
   • Studio: Slices
   • Studio: Floodfill
3. Assignment: Futures and Executors
   • Studio: Fibonacci Memoization and Dynamic Programming
   • Studio: Data Races Studio
   • Studio: Matrix Multiply
4. Assignment: MapReduce
   • Studio: Card MapReduce
   • Studio: Cholera MapReduce
5. Assignment: N-Queens/Sudoku Assignment
   • Studio: Legged Races
6. Assignment: K-MerCounting Assignment
   • Studio: Locking

FAQ

Every week, we gather the most commonly asked questions from your Q&S forms and add them to our FAQ section. Please use it as a resource!

Help with Java

• Rundown on Everything Java
  • Generics
  • Interfaces
  • Lambdas

Help with Habanero

• Habanero

Help with Eclipse

• Eclipse Tips

Class Policies and Grading Breakdown

• Class Policies
• Office hours

Grading breakdown:

• Midterm (15%)
• Final (10%)
• Prep Q&S Forms (15%)
• Participation/Attendance (10%)
• Assignments and Studios (50%)
  • Nucleobase Counting (weight=1;3.85%)
  • SimpleList and SimpleMap Assignment (weight=1;3.85%)
  • Futures and Executors (weight=2;7.69%)
  • MapReduce (weight=4;15.38%)
  • N-Queens/Sudoku Assignment (weight=3;11.54%)
  • K-MerCounting_Assignment (weight=2;7.69%)