Concurrent Programming Course Material

Start Concurrent by Barry Wittman

This page provides the book Start Concurrent: A Gentle Introduction to Concurrent Programming by Barry Wittman that covers the following topics related to Concurrent Programming : Computer Basics, Problem Solving and Programming, Primitive Types and Strings, Selection, Repetition, Arrays, Simple Graphical User Interfaces, Methods, Classes, Interfaces, Inheritance, Exceptions, Concurrent Programming, Synchronization, Constructing Graphical User Interfaces, Testing and Debugging, Polymorphism, Dynamic Data Structures, Recursion, File I/O, Network Communication.

Author(s): Barry Wittman

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Concurrent Programming in Harmony by Cornell

This PDF covers the following topics related to Concurrent Programming : On Concurrent Programming, Hello World!, The Problem of Concurrent Programming, The Harmony Virtual Machine, Critical Sections, Peterson’s Algorithm, Harmony Methods and Pointers, Specification, Spinlock, Lock Implementations, Concurrent Data Structures, Fine-Grained Locking, Testing: Checking Behaviors, Debugging, Conditional Waiting, Reader/Writer Locks, Bounded Buffer, Split Binary Semaphores, Starvation, Monitors, Deadlock, Actors and Message Passing, Barrier Synchronization, Interrupts, Non-Blocking Synchronization, Alternating Bit Protocol, Leader Election, Transactions and Two Phase Commit, Chain Replication, Working with Actions, Replicated Atomic Read/Write Register, Distributed Consensus, Paxos, Needham-Schroeder Authentication Protocol.

Author(s): Robbert van Renesse

225 Pages

Advanced Concurrent Programming Notes

This note covers the following topics: Shared Variable Programming, Proof Outline Logic for concurrent programs, Mutual exclusion and Petersen's algorithm, Barrier synchronization and flag synchronization, Semaphores, Monitors, Distributed Programming, Remote Procedure Call and RMI, Transactional memory.

Author(s): Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Concurrent Programming Course Material

This note covers the following topics: Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming, Basic Concurrency Theory, Introduction to SPIN, Concurrent Programming Practice: Processes and threads, Synchronization Mechanisms.

Author(s): Gregory R. Andrews and Hans Henrik

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