Week 12: Asynchronous Computation

• Threads

  After this unit, students should

  • understand the behaviour of threads.
  • be able to create a simple thread.

• Asynchronous Programming

  After this unit, students should

  • understand the limitation of thread.
  • understand and be able to use CompletableFuture.

• Fork and Join

  After this unit, students should

  • understand the task deque and work stealing.
  • understand the behaviour of fork and join (and compute).
  • be able to order fork and join efficiently.
  • be able to use RecursiveTask.