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+# Uppsala University: parallel_programming_practical_assignments
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+This repository contains my hand in assingment code for the course "Language Abstraction for Parallel Programming".
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+The code most likely is not bug free but might still be intersting.
+The second and third assignments use build scripts which allow you to run simply by using `./run.sh`.
+Moreover they include some basic test.