Waterloo's CS 343 (concurrency) course uses coroutines as a stepping block towards understanding concurrent programming.
Notes from the course are fantastic, coroutines start here: https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/documents/notes.p...
Notes from the course are fantastic, coroutines start here: https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/documents/notes.p...
I'm disappointed the course teaches μC++ rather than referencing C++11 threading support.
I would love to have applied test driven development to my courses.
The primitives uC++ make it very easy to form the concurrency models that are present in other languages and these days the prof does exactly that and shows exactly how to implement common models, such as channels, actors, and a few others.
Everything done is very mappable to how other languages provide concurrency.
As others have mentioned, uC++ is necessary because other runtimes lack the complete set of concurrency constructs that the course explores. It's essentially the path of least resistance to introducing CS students to all the different flavors of concurrency.
[1] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/documents/notes.p...