Module: Concurrency, Processes, Threads

Learning Outcomes

Concurrency

Understand the general concept of concurrency
Understand the process and the thread abstractions
Be able to use threads to implement concurrency in programs
Understand the thread safety issue

Readings

Concurrency

Introduction to the concept of concurency

Lecture notes

Processes and Threads

The process and thread abstractions, and how they can or cannot be used to achieve useful concurrency

Lecture notes