Concurrent Programming

Dear Students,

based on the criteria

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

we're awarding a bonus to four project groups:

• Logically Limitless Lelicopters 🚁
• 👀 Manchmal ist das Leben halt so…
• 🦀 on your door
• ☕️🐌

Congratulations to the following students! 🎉

• Daniel Düpont
• Carlos Zender Fernandez
• Albert-Antoniu Greaca
• Fabian Pütz
• Adrian Scherhag
• Niklas Scholz
• Kamila Szewczyk
• Qifan Yang

To each one 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 can now find the results of the re-exams on your personal status page.

For re-exam T, if you have obtained 31 points or more, you have passed the exam. 60% of participating students have passed the exam, the highest score achieved was 55 out of 60 points, the median was 31 points.

For re-exam A, if you have obtained 31 points or more, you have passed the exam. 71% of participating students have passed the exam, the highest score achieved was 53.5 out of 60 points, the median was 36.25 points.

Unless your project grading is still pending, you will also see the final grade for the entire course on your personal status page. The gradescale used for this is unchanged from the main exams, i.e. if you achieved higher marks in a re-exam, the score will replace the main exam result.

We will announce a date and time for the exam inspection soon.

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 ensure 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 29 September 2024.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

in one week, on Wednesday, 14.08.24, we'll write exam A. To help you prepare, we are offering another installment of Concurrency Café XXL on Friday, 09.08.24. It will start at 14:00 and run until 18:00. We will use E1 3, SR 016.

Aditionally, we would also like to remind you, as stated on the Project Mission Briefing, to let us know if for the 16th of August any member of your project groups is unavailable for the defence so we can make a different appointment (preferably on the 13th of August).

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

we have created the project repositories in dGit for you. In case you cannot access your repository, please contact us immediately via 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.

On your personal status page, you will now also find your assigned project tutor.

Have fun coding!

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 31 points or more, you have passed the exam (why?). 72% of participating students have passed the exam, the highest score achieved was 58.5 out of 60 points, the median was 37 points.

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, approximative 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/tuimx2ew7uicpv87m9o3

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

on Tuesday, May 28, 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 10:15.

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 XXL tomorrow (Thursday, May 23) from 14:00 in E1 1, room 407, and on Friday (May 24) from 14:00 in E1 3, SR014 (moving to E1 1, room 407 at 16:00).

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

in two weeks, on Tuesday, 28.05.24, we’ll write exam T. To help you prepare, we are offering two additional events:

• Next Tuesday at 10:15, we will replace the lecture with a Q&A session (in the usual lecture hall). There, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions on anything covered in the lecture so far.
  You can ask questions live in the lecture. However, we encourage you to pre-submit your questions so we can prepare an answer.
  The Q&A session will not be recorded.
• Next week, both Concurrency Cafés are being supersized and turn into Concurrency Café XXL. They start at 14:00 but run longer, and our tutors have prepared additional training exercises for you. The Thursday session will be in E1 1, room 407; the Friday session will start in the usual room (E1 3, SR 014) but move to E1 1, room 407 at 16:00.

We would also like to remind you to register in LSF for the exam. The registration closes one week before the exam. If you miss this deadline, you will be unable to participate in the exam – no exceptions.
If your course of study does not use LSF, you must register in dCMS on your personal status page, and may need to register with your examination office.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team