Course retrospective: Languages and Abstractions for Distributed Programming

1 · Lindsey Kuper · Jan. 1, 2019, 6:12 a.m.
My first term here at UC Santa Cruz has wrapped up, and with it, my graduate seminar course, Languages and Abstractions for Distributed Programming. I had a delightful group of six students, all from the UCSC CS Ph.D. program; over ten weeks, we wrote a group blog, read twenty-six papers, and hosted six guest speakers. Readings, responses, and presentations As is typical for a graduate seminar, most of the work students did in this course consisted of reading papers, writing responses to them,...