In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a banking application that uses conditions and locks to ensure thread safety, practice designing programs that take advantage of multiple threads without losing data integrity, and learn how to apply multithreading to your own projects. By the end of the guided project, you will be able to create your own thread-safe Java multithreaded applications.
Create Your First Multithreaded Application in Java
Taught in English
Instructor: Anirudh Balasubramanian
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What you'll learn
Create a banking application that uses conditions and locks to ensure thread safety
Practice designing programs to take advantage of multiple threads without losing data integrity
Learn how to apply multithreading to applications you design on your own
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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Discover what threads are and why we need them for a modern application
Create an application in Java that uses multiple threads at once
Explore race conditions and how to avoid them
Learn how to synchronize threads in Java to create thread-safe applications
Practice using thread pools and other automatic thread management tools
Learn how to make thread work together using conditions and locks
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Students should have a working knowledge of how computers run programs. Students should also be able to read simple Java code containing methods.
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