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Back-end Engineering

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Practice Tasks for Concurrency Essentials

This practice-based course reinforces the concepts learned in the previous course `Concurrency Essentials`. It includes real-life tasks that focus on synchronization mechanisms, lock-free programming, deadlock prevention, and inter-thread communication. Each unit provides a practical scenario where students can apply their knowledge to solve concurrency challenges.

C++

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4 lessons

17 practices

1 hour

Computer Science Fundamentals

Lessons and practices

Lesson 1: Mastering Mutexes and Deadlocks

Assign Each Resource a Mutex

Fixing Locking Issue

Master Thread-safe Movie Collection

Building a Thread-safe Task Manager

Lesson 2: Implementing the Real-World Producer-Consumer Problem

Flag for Completion in Producer-Consumer

Fix the Synchronization Bug

Fill in the Producer-Consumer Blanks

Math Producer-Consumer Synchronization Task

Building a Food Order System

Lesson 3: Simulating the Dining Philosophers Problem and Solving Deadlocks

Implement Timeout in Dining Philosophers

Introducing Timed Locks for Philosophers

Threads and Locks for Philosophers

Build a Multithreaded Musician Simulation

Concurrency Challenge for Engineers

Lesson 4: Thread-safe Logging System

Enhance Thread Safety with Mutexes

Complete the Thread-Safe Logger

Create a Thread-safe Event Logger

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