Concurrent Programming

Dear Students,

Based on the criteria

• effective and elegant use of concurrency,
• quality of documentation,
• community support, and
• excellent performance,

we award a bonus to four project groups:

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Congratulations to the following students! 🎉

• Aron Hanowski,
• Moritz Heckmann,
• Jonathan Müller,
• Robert Pietsch,
• and three more individuals.

For each of them, 5 bonus points (equivalent to one step in the grade scale) will be added to the final points.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

You will now find the results of exam A on your personal status page. You have passed the exam if you have obtained at least 30 points. The points you obtained are the result of your performance in the exam lifted by 4 points.

We had 75 participants of which 54 made the cut. The highest score obtained is 59 out of 60.

In case it is definite that you have passed the course (i.e., you passed exams T and A and completed the project), a preliminary grade for the entire course is calculated from the sum of points obtained in exams T and A (plus any potential points from the bonus exercises) using this grade scale. In this, you can find your grade on your personal status page, too. (Any potential project bonus will be added at a later date.)

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

The results of Milestone Ω are now shown on your personal status page.

In case you have not passed Milestone Ω, you will need to rectify the remaining issues (assuming you fulfill the formal requirements to be able to do so).

For this second attempt, we expect the following in your repository:

1. Your updated implementation. Take care that you have rectified any open issues and that your code is adequately commented and self-explanatory.
2. Your (possibly updated) documentation.

Once you are ready with your updates, send a personal message to your tutor in our discussion board. For each remaining issue, include a brief list of changes you made to address it. We plan to inspect your updates soon after notification and will give you feedback then.

There will not be a second defense, your submission will be inspected solely based on the material you will have delivered. It is in your genuine interest to then have ensured that you have evidently rectified all open issues and that you have explained the changes clearly.

If you are unsure about what issues need to be addressed, please contact your tutor directly.

We highly recommend that you finish the second submission as soon as possible. The ultimate deadline is 23 October 2023.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

We have scheduled the project defenses. You can find your appointment on your personal status page. The defense takes place in room 407 in E1 1.
If you cannot make the appointment we assigned to you, please send a message to @Organizers in the forum immediately.

Please bring your student ID, and a laptop with your project (in the version that is shown on Mission Control) ready to run, to the defense.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

To assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last urgent questions, our tutors are offering an extended Concurrency Café on Friday, July 28 from 11:00 to 16:00 in E1 3, SR014. We strongly recommend to commence your preparation well before these this day.

Kind regards,
The Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

On Tuesday, August 1, we will write Exam A, covering units E-H. If you are registered for exam T, you are also automatically registered for exam A. If you are registered, you will now find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us immediately.
Please arrive at GHH no later than 10:05. The exam will take 60 minutes.

Kind regards,
The Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

As you already know, there will be an in-person project defense on the 2nd of August. By default, we assume that you are available for the whole day, and we can freely assign you a time slot. If this is not the case, please write a message to @Organizers in our forum by Tuesday, 25th of July at the latest.

Just as a friendly reminder, you need to submit an implementation for Starship to qualify for the bonus (see mission briefing).

Another news is that Qualis has returned the results of the course evaluation. Thank you for providing feedback and suggestions! You can find the evaluation result (without free-form answers) in the course materials.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

We created the project repositories in dGit for you. In case you cannot access your repository, please contact us immediately via private message to @Organizers in the forum.

Please also have a look at the Projects category in the forum. In particular, the post How to Project in VS Code explains how to set up your IDE for working on the project, and the post Running Automatic Tests contains further details about the automatic testing infrastructure.

Have fun coding!

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

You will now find your mission briefing and links to the project templates on the material page in dCMS.

The deadline for the project registration is tomorrow, 27.06.2023, 23:59. You can find details about the project registration in the mission briefing.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

welcome to the practical project! The mission briefing is now available in the course materials. Please keep in mind that the deadline to register for the project is tomorrow, 27.06.2023, 23:59. Until then, you must complete the three steps outlined in the Groups & Registration section of the project description. If you have any questions about the project, you're invited to pose them in the Project category of our discussion board.

In addition, we would like to ask you to evaluate the concurrent programming lecture (unless you have already done so). You can do so here:

• Lecture
• Tutorials

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

You will now find a Bonus Exercise H in dCMS.

Submitting solutions to this exercise is entirely optional, and we recommend you only work on it if you already have a deep understanding of the main materials presented in the lecture.

Note that you may also submit partial solutions. If you do submit this exercise, you may be awarded bonus points. You can find more details on the bonus exercise sheet itself.

For this bonus exercise, you are not allowed to work in your group, i.e., you must solve it by yourself. Plagiarism will be punished by exclusion from the lecture and reporting to the examination board.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

The programming project will start next Monday. To register for it, we ask you to already complete the following steps now:

1. Find a project partner and form a team in dCMS.
2. Register at our GitLab instance and enter your GitLab username on your personal status page in dCMS.
3. Choose the programming language you want to use on your personal status page in dCMS.

Details will follow in lecture H3.

Kind regards
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

you can now find the results of exam T on your personal status page. If you have obtained 30 points or more, you have passed the exam. A grade for the entire course (including potential bonus points) will be calculated once the results of exam A are available.

However, you can determine a preliminary grade by comparing your point sum with the output of this pseuCo program (best viewed using the Random path feature): https://pseuco.com/#/edit/remote/7ahkuohtwu7vvtxpouk6

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

on Monday, May 22, we will write Exam T, covering units A-D. If you registered for the exam, you will find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us immediately.
Please arrive at your assigned lecture hall no later than 14:15. The exam will take 60 minutes.

As a reminder, to assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last-minute questions, our tutors are offering an extended Concurrency Café today (Friday, May 19) from 12:00 to 16:00 in E1 3, room SR014.

Kind regards,
The Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

on Monday, May 22, we will write Exam T, covering units A-D. The exam will take 1 hour and take place in the time frame 14:00 and 16:00. We use the remaining time before and after for organizational matters. Please register in LSF until Monday, May 15. If your study program does not use LSF registration, please register on your personal status page instead.

To assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last urgent questions, our tutors are offering an extended Concurrency Café on Friday, May 19 from 12:00 to 16:00 in E1 3, SR014. We strongly recommend to commence your preparation well before these two days.

Kind regards,
Your concurrent programming team

Dear students,

You will now find a Bonus Exercise B-C in dCMS.

Submitting solutions to this exercise is entirely optional, and we recommend you only work on it if you already have a deep understanding of the main materials presented in the lecture.

Note that you may also submit partial solutions. If you do submit this exercise, you may be awarded bonus points. You can find more details on the bonus exercise sheet itself.

For this bonus exercise, you are not allowed to work in your group, i.e., you must solve it by yourself. Plagiarism will be punished by exclusion from the lecture and reporting to the examination board.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

We have finalized the formation of colloquia groups as well as the assignment of time slots to colloquia groups. You will find your group and slot on your personal status page in dCMS. To contact your teammates, use the forum. Their usernames are provided on your personal status page as well. Make sure you have activated your forum account, otherwise your teammates will not be able to contact you!

Furthermore, the system now accepts submission of solutions for Exercise EA.3. Note that this is a group submission, i.e., you have to collaborate within your group and submit a single solution together. The submission deadline is 23.04.2023, 23:59.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

You will now find the Exercise Sheet A in dCMS.

Note that you are required to hand in the solution for exercise EA.3 prior to the colloquium (23.04.2023, 23:59 at the latest). For this, you have to collaborate within your group. We will finalize the colloquia groups in the next two days.

Furthermore, you will find your tutorial slot on your personal status page now.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

As explained, colloquia form an important component of our learning concept. See here for details.

The survey to schedule your preferred time slot for the colloquium is online now. You can find your personalized link to the survey on your personal status page in dCMS. You can update your preferences until Tuesday, 18.04.2023, 23:59. At least one member of each pre-formed group, and all students who do not pre-form a group, must submit the survey.

Until Tuesday, you can also form (and change) the colloquium groups yourself. Afterwards, we will complete the groups and assign you a time slot. You can find further information in the forum.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team