Re: [ptp-dev] PTP as the development basis for a didactic environment ab

["c.del" <delistavrou@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your reply. I'll be in touch with you and the ptp-dev community!

Best regards,
Constantinos



Greg Watson-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi Constantinos,
> 
> Thanks for your email. I believe that the PTP community would welcome
> contributions that improve the use of PTP for education and teaching
> purposes, and in turn, simplify the use of PTP for real-world application
> development. If you have any questions about technical aspects of PTP or
> the Eclipse Foundation contribution process, please don't hesitate to let
> me know.
> 
> Best regards,
> Greg
> 
> On May 7, 2010, at 2:51 AM, c.del wrote:
> 
>> Hello Greg,
>> 
>> My name is Constantinos Delistavrou. Since January 2010 I'm a PhD student
>> at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) under the
>> supervision of Prof. K.G. Margaritis (Parallel Distributed Processing
>> Laboratory, Department of Applied Informatics > http://www.it.uom.gr/).
>> Our research is about parallel processing tools for teaching parallel
>> programming. We aim at the use of real life tools and real life target
>> systems for teaching parallel programming to novice students.
>> 
>> Since the beginning of our effort we surveyed parallel processing tools
>> that can be used for teaching parallel programming (programming
>> environments, debuggers, performance analysis, simulation, visualization
>> tools). We focus on open source tools and for a number of reasons we
>> chose Eclipse and PTP as the basis for development and implementation of
>> a teaching/didactic platform to support our goals.
>> 
>> Since we found no other eclipse plugin for parallel programming education
>> we think about developing the means for this purpose (new plugin,
>> interface improvements, etc). A characteristics analysis is used to
>> propose a research and development framework, for the support of teaching
>> parallel programming, on real life target systems, using production
>> oriented software environments.
>> 
>> During the aforementioned survey we tried to encode a number of candidate
>> for implementation functions towards PTP's educational usage. It's not
>> our purpose to implement each and every one of these features. We will
>> try to implement some of them as we think that they will give PTP a
>> parallel programming education perspective. To name a few:
>> 
>> Ability to save the history of actions during compilation and execution.
>> Ability to create compilation and execution reports based on the saved
>> history without the need of re-compiling and re-executing the source
>> code.
>> Hellenization of the user interface and adaptation to the student's
>> parallel programming awareness.
>> Tracing and explanation of bottlenecks, dead-ends, and other possible
>> inconsistencies (This is already developed. It was introduced in version
>> 3.0.0 of PTP, released on December 4, 2009 as “In-situ Partial Order
>> (ISP) Analysis”).
>> Implementation of wizards for parallel programming step by step guidance.
>> Creation of interactive theory presentation and exercises.
>> Representation and clarification of code execution using multimedia.
>> Implementation of analytic (parallel programming education oriented) help
>> system.
>> Implementation of a ready to use parallel code samples library.
>> Ability to develop parallel code through graphical programming.
>> Implementation of a simulation system.
>> Implementation of an experiments management system.
>> Ability to produce novice-friendly interactive reports and
>> visualizations.
>> Extra-detailed debugging aids for source code and data structures in
>> memory.
>> The next step of our research is the selective development of these
>> candidate features for the implementation of a didactic environment based
>> mainly on Eclipse PTP. Other tasks are, the experimentation in a larger
>> scale using real life programming examples that are normally used in
>> teaching environments, usability hands-on labs.
>> 
>> So, I would like to inform you and the whole PTP community about our
>> research intentions and to ask for any valuable piece of relevant
>> information (like other people interested in such projects, tips about
>> how to kick-start such features development, and so on).
>> 
>> Best regards, 
>> Constantinos
>> 
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