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Ask HN: In which class do you learn about threading

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I minored in CS but never learned about this topic. It seems important and I want to educate myself. Can someone tell me which class or classes cover this material?

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Here is MIT's free online course on the subject:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

It depends on the university. As some others have mentioned it will probably come up with some depth in operating systems. It is kind of hard to avoid in OS. I don't think it's uncommon to have a course with a bit of a focus on this kind of stuff either. You might also hit it in a networking course, though it can be avoided there.

Learning the basics on your own isn't too difficult though. Writing a single threaded web service, a forking web service, and a multi-threaded web service is a little project you can do. Ideally the processes would need to share memory or communicate with one another some way.

The university I went to covered threading in the operating systems class (4th year undergrad), iirc. Working through an online tutorial for java concurrency might be beneficial?

It really varies i think. When I took CS as a major, we came across threading in multiple classes but prominently in Operating Systems and Software Engineering. Some earlier data structure classes had assignments (Java/C++) where we had to write games using threading. I even remember that in one of the earlier game assignments, threading was a bonus point if used.

Covered in a few different classes, but in detail as part of the two Concurrent Systems modules: https://scss.tcd.ie/undergraduate/computer-science/js/#CS301...

We learned about it in CS201 in the University of Virginia. That's 2nd semester CS.

But it varies. I think now adays, the students don't learn about it till 300 level---the Principles of Software Development class.

Although not officially, we have used some simple threading techniques in my Android class. Which is an elective course for Computer Science at FSU.

In my university in Operating Systems class we learnd about threading

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