CompSciWeek6

Reading:

• Beginning Python - skim. chapters 8-14 (use as reference material)
  • see expecially urlopen on p. 300, forks and threads on p. 304
• Beginning Python - Chapter 15 (Web services)

Class 1: The Git Revision Control System

• Repository structure
  • git clone, init
  • examining git objects
  • code branches, git branch, status, checkout
• Version histories and diff-s
  • git diff, patch
• Working with remote repo-s
  • git commit, pull, push

Class 2: Parallel Programming

• Parallel complexity - sum / min / max
• Parallel caching
• Eigenvalue computation - the "google" algo.
• Web Services