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Distributed and Mobile Programming Paradigms

About

This site covers the lab sessions for the Distributed and Mobile Programming Paradigms course. The aim of the lab sessions is twofold. First, students put in practice some of the concepts about distributed programming paradigms seen at the theory class. Second, students get familiar with AmbientTalk, the distributed programming language used for the project.

In each session, students implement a small application or a subset of an application in AmbientTalk. The idea is to incrementally implement the application starting from a skeleton code. The exercises start from the basics of the AmbientTalk language and gradually introduce how to use concurrent and distributed programing abstractions such guards, asynchronous message passing, distributed programming with tuple spaces, and peer-to-peer networks. They also deploy some of their applications on real devices such as Android phones and tablets.

See the official course site at PointCarré for more information on the course itself.

Organisation

Course lecturer: Wolfgang De Meuter
Assistants: Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Jorge Vallejos
Room 1E.05 (Mac room)
Time slot 2st Semester, Tuesday, 14:00 - 16:00
Communication Via PointCarré

Material

Schedule

Here comes a temporary schedule for the lab sessions. Assignments and solutions will be published before and after each session, respectively.

  • Session 1: First steps in AmbientTalk
    • Date: Week 23 - 21/02/12
    • Concepts: Functional, imperative and object-oriented programming.
  • Session 2: First steps in AmbientTalk (Cont'd)
    • Date: Week 24 - 28/02/12
    • Concepts: Functional, imperative and object-oriented programming.
  • Session 3: Internet Cafe
    • Date: Week 25 - 06/03/12
    • Concepts: concurrent programming with actors, future-typed message passing,guards, unit testing.
  • Session 4: weScribble on Android phones
    • Date: Week 26 - 13/03/12
    • Concepts: distributed programming, language symbiosis with Java and Android.
  • Session 5: Mobile Music Player
    • Date: Week 27 - 20/03/12
    • Concepts: insight in language support for partial failures, conditional synchronization with futures.
  • Session 6: Flikken in TOTAM
    • Date: Week 28 - 27/03/12
    • Concepts: distributed programming with tuple spaces.
  • Session 7: BeerNet
    • Date: Week 28 - 30/03/12 (to be confirmed)
    • Concepts: Peer-to-peer architectures, distributed hash tables.
  • Session 8: goShopping
    • Date: Week 31 - 17/04/12
    • Concepts: distributed debugging with REME-D.
  • Session 9: Omnireferences
    • Date: Week 32 - 24/04/12
    • Concepts: Reflective programming in AmbientTalk, group communication abstractions.

Project

The project assigment will be announced before the Easter break.

  • Project delivery: 11/06/12 at 16.00.
  • Project defenses: during week 39/40 (to be confirmed).
teaching/dmpp.1329821646.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/02/21 13:19 (external edit)