Sequential Programming Considered Harmful? – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/sequential-programming-considered-harmful

Today, multicore processors power our laptops and cellphones. Distributed cloud servers or supercomputer clusters process large data sets.

To take full advantage of these systems, you need parallel algorithms. “It’s a parallel world,” 

Why is no one teaching a course in parallel algorithms to freshmen? 

Currently, most introductory computer science courses start with sequential programming, 

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