While the community as well as the CS2013 ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curriculum Joint Task Force has recognized the need to integrate parallel and distributed computing (PDC) topics in the early core courses in the computer science and computer engineering curriculum, both instructors and students need suitable textual material to effectively carry this out.  The book project's goal is to address the lack of suitable textbooks to integrate PDC topics into the lower level core courses (CS1, CS2, Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Logic Design, etc.).  The NSF/TCPP working group on PDC curriculum for undergraduates has proposed a set of core PDC topics and their level of coverage.  This is organized into four tables of architecture, programming, algorithm, and cross-cutting topics - see http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum.  This edited book will cover all these proposed topics and will be freely available on the Web.  The book will have two parts.

Part I: For instructors - Basic concepts and references on (i) what and (ii) how to teach PDC topics in the context of the existing topics in various core courses.

Part 2: For students - Supplemental textual material for core courses which students can rely on for learning and exercises.

http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=CFP_Book_Project