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About the Course

This course teaches learners (industry professionals and students) the fundamental concepts of concurrent programming in the context of Java 8. Concurrent programming enables developers to efficiently and correctly mediate the use of shared resources in parallel programs. By the end of this course, you will learn how to use basic concurrency constructs in Java such as threads, locks, critical sections, atomic variables, isolation, actors, optimistic concurrency and concurrent collections, as well as their theoretical foundations (e.g., progress guarantees, deadlock, livelock, starvation, linearizability). Why take this course? • It is important for you to be aware of the theoretical foundations of concurrency to avoid common but subtle programming errors. • Java 8 has modernized many of the concurrency constructs since the early days of threads and locks. • During the course, you will have online access to the instructor and mentors to get individualized answers to your questions posted on the forums. • Each of the four modules in the course includes an assigned mini-project that will provide you with the necessary hands-on experience to use the concepts learned in the course on your own, after the course ends. The desired learning outcomes of this course are as follows: • Concurrency theory: progress guarantees, deadlock, livelock, starvation, linearizability • Use of threads and structured/unstructured locks in Java • Atomic variables and isolation • Optimistic concurrency and concurrent collections in Java (e.g., concurrent queues, concurrent hashmaps) • Actor model in Java Mastery of these concepts will enable you to immediately apply them in the context of concurrent Java programs, and will also help you master other concurrent programming system that you may encounter in the future (e.g., POSIX threads, .NET threads)....

Top reviews

GA

Sep 19, 2020

Very good explanation of the concepts of locks, and how important data-structures example HashMap are optimized to improve performance

FH

Nov 26, 2020

It could have been better. Course content is very basic and just scratches the surface of concurrent programming. However, fully recommend it for beginners.

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By Carlos V

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Mar 18, 2020

I feel the proposed exercises should be more involved and "in small pieces" in order to engage and dive better into the introduced concepts.

By MIAO K

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Sep 16, 2017

Programming assignment is some what easy, I think it my be better to require student to finished the complete code.

By Shahed B S

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Oct 17, 2017

Was expecting to learn more advanced topics, including initiating concurrency in systems.

By Anton D

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Sep 26, 2023

I wish mini projects were more challenging

By yangyu s

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Dec 6, 2017

passing test cases are mostly luck T_T

By Nanditha K R

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Sep 14, 2020

The concepts are explained well. Quizzes and mini project could be better. Somehow the assignments and quizzes were not to standard. Mostly fixing one line changes. Autograder of assignment can be improved.

By Phindulo M

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May 7, 2020

The auto grader is very inconsistent which ruined my experience of the course.

Enjoyed the lectures and they were very informative.

By Ottavio V

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Jul 17, 2019

Too much time spent always submitting the same solutions because the autograder doesn't work!

By Ignat S

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Oct 1, 2019

autograder is buggy

By Aleksandr B

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Oct 28, 2021

Why is homework so different from videos? Why does teacher give so little information? He must give more information not only wiki links... High level of teacher but very low level of teaching. I do not recommend

By Govardhan M

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Dec 5, 2020

The coding assignments are lot different than what's explained in the videos. Had difficult time to figure them out.