Concurrent Programming - Spring 2019

This is the homepage of the course on Concurrent Programming, held at the University of Southern Denmark in Spring 2019.

Material

• The book: Java Concurrency In Practice. Brian Goetz et al. Addison-Wesley 2007.
• The code developed during the lectures: https://github.com/fmontesi/cp2019
• Introduction
• Java - Generics, Inner classes, Lambda expressions

Exercises

The main exercises are given in the course code repository, https://github.com/fmontesi/cp2019, in the folder exercises. Each week has its own subdirectory.

If you would like to receive updates on when exercises become available, you can watch the repository on GitHub: open the link and click "Watch" on the top-right. (You need to create a GitHub account to do that, if you do not have one already.)

Some exercises are given at the end of the slides. More exercises are developed during the exercise classes, by reworking the examples in the book. Below you can find the reading assignments for each exercise class (see the Introduction slides if you do not understand this point).

• Week 6: Read the Java Generics Tutorial, from Introduction to Generic Methods. Read the Java Anonymous Classes documentation. Do the exercises (marked Opt) given at the end of the slides 2.pdf.
• Week 7: Do the exercises in the git repository.
• Week 9: Read chapters 1 and 2. Exercises in the git repository.
• Week 10: Read chapters 3 and 4. Exercises in the git repository.
• Week 11: Read chapter 5. Exercises in the git repository.
• Week 13: Read chapters 6 and 7. Exercises in the git repository.
• Week 14: Read chapters 8 and 10. Exercises in the git repository.

Useful Links / Additional Reading