Week 10

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  • Demo and codewalk of csp-dining-philosophers.go
    • Go language features highlighted:
      • channels
      • select
    • Design basis for solution in Go: go routines (processes)
      • room (communicates with philosophers over channels)
        • for philosophers to enter/leave – at most 4 at a time to prevent deadlocking, 5th philosopher blocks
      • forks (communicate with philosophers over channels)
      • philosophers (communicate with forks over channels)

  • Demo and codewalk: Sieve of Eratosthenes (Prime Number Sieve)
    • copy the sample code from my directory to yours:
      • cd into the directory where you have your sample Go code
      • cp -r /home/mlsmith/cs377-examples/Go/sieve.go ~/
    • Go language features highlighted:
      • Only one looping construct in Go: for loop
        • all three parts are optional: init statement, conditional expression, post statement
      • channel declarations in function headers
        • can specify syntactically whether channel is for reading from:
          <-chan

          or writing to:

          chan<-

  • Assignment 5 posted
    • Sort Pump Gophers PDF
    • Due: Friday, Nov 13th