NDLI: Teaching data structures: thread safety and components

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shults, B.P.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Western Carolina Univ., Cullowhee, NC, USA (Shults, B.P.)
Abstract	The data structures that are written in a typical data structures course cannot or would not be used in common applications in industry for two reasons. First, they do not work according to their specifications if they are used in a multi-threaded environment. If two threads are deleting adjacent elements of a linked list at the same time, for example, then one of the deletes may not have any effect. Second, they do not fire change events and thus frustrate common design practices of connecting software components. As a result, it is more difficult for the application programmer to separate the data, the structures, the logic, the user interface, and the application code from each other. Here we discuss some issues involved in including these two topics, threads and components, in a course on data structures. Students who learn these techniques will have less to learn when they begin to use and write data structures in industry.
Sponsorship	IEEE Educ. Soc. IEEE Comput. Soc. American Soc. Eng. Educ. (Educ. Res. & Methods Div.)
File Size	507670
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780374444
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2002.1157918
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-11-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Education Data structures Yarn Safety Application software Fires Joining processes Programming profession Logic User interfaces
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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