[12:00pm] SS2010 Preschool: Assessing Your Programming Skills

Speaker: David McCaughan

Much of the Summer School programme is focused on programming. While we always take steps to inform attendees that we are primarily covering the parallel side of the programming equation, and thus assume some experience writing serial code, we have found some people underestimate what is meant by “some level of serial programming experience” which can present barriers. This talk will survey basic language concepts that are considered “essential” to serial programming, and thus will underpin any expansion into parallelism (e.g. file handling, pointers and memory management, etc.). The hope is this will provide someone with a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses while there is still a little time to brush up before the summer school commences.

Although aimed at attendees of the upcoming Summer School, any interested SHARCNET member is welcome to this seminar.

To attend this webinar, simply direct your browser to:

http://my.dimdim.com/sharcnet/

shortly before the talk is scheduled to begin (note: you do not need to pre-register in order to attend). We ask that you use your SHARCNET username as your nickname for the session as it helps us keep track of who was there. The DimDim software is capable of 2-way audio and video (although audio and video of attendees is typically kept off until needed to minimize technical issues), and can share the presentation and desktop of the presenter. Additional information regarding DimDim can be found in our online training centre: https://www.sharcnet.ca/help/index.php/Attending_SHARCNET_Webinars.