Michael Shah - Computer Science

Module 6 - Concurrency

Audio/Video Recording

Audio Recordings are posted after class within a youtube playlist. Occasionally technical errors happen, but I do my best to post recordings as soon as possible to a playlist.

The full course playlist is here: Course Youtube Playlist

Readings/Warmup (Do before class)

Full guide on programming with pthreads
- (Great tutorial!)
The Free Lunch is Over
- (by Herb Sutter)
Cooperating sequential processes
- (by Dijkstra)

[Test your knowledge on the readings] (This is not graded)

Slides (Available to follow along during class)

[Slides]

Commented Code Samples (if any)

For now I am linking code samples here: Github Code Repository for the course

In-Class Activity or Lab (Enabled toward the end of lecture -- due 1 week from release)

In-Class Activity link
- (This is graded, and only your first response is graded)
- This is an evaluation of what was learned in lecture.
(lab) Do a "git pull" from the monorepo

Additional Resources

Think OS - Chapter 11 Semaphores
- (Supplemental reading)
pthreads
- (Additional examples to try)

Module Content

Module Overview

In this module we learn about concurrent programming!

Module Outline

Lecture outline
- Parallelism vs Concurrency
- Threads vs Processes
- Shared Variables (Data Race, Dead lock, Starvation)
- Thread-Safety and Semaphores