Concurrency and Threads

Plan

Day 1 - Concurency, Thread, Runnable, basic Synchronozation

Day 2 - Threads Continued, Producer Consumer, DeadLocks

Day 3 - Thread Continued, Callables and Futures

Day 4 - JavaScript, AJAX, JSON continue

Day 5 - Study point exercises

Learning objectives (Concurrency/threads)

• Learn the fundamental topics related to concurrency and thread programming
• Understand the general problems (unrelated to the number of kernels)that can be solved using concurrency
• Learn how to take advantage, programmatically, of modern multi-kernel CPU's

Business competences (Concurrency/threads)

As a programmer there are problems that can only (realistically) be solved using concurrency features

Taking advantage of modern multi-kernel CPU requires an understanding of how to program with threads

These lessons will provide student with the necessary background to use these features in any language/platform but are presented via Java

Exercises

• Exercises Day-1
• Exercises Day-2 (Producer/Consumer and Deadlocks)
• Exercises Day-3 (Using an executor service)

Resources:

General

Day-1

• The well-grounded Java developer -- I recommend reading the introduction, 4.1.1 (and the 4.1 intro), 4.1.3, 4.2.1 (and the 4.2 intro) and 4.6 after the lecture.
• slides

Day-2

• Watch this SHORT video before the lesson to get a conceptual idea about the Producer-Consumer Problem
• Producer/Consumer Solution using BlockingQueue
• Deadlock
• Slides
• Code Snippets

Day-3

These are not "read it all" resources, but "get an overview", and "use for looking up things later" resources. You should still skim them to get an overview.

• Java ExecutorService api doc -- The ExecuterService interface.
• Java Executors class -- has static methods to instantiate common executor services.
• Java Future api doc -- the actual future class
• Java CompletableFuture api doc -- the actual CompletableFuture class
• Java callable api doc -- the actual future class
• Slides