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Mastering Concurrency in Go

Intermediate

35 Lessons

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Course Overview

Mastering concurrency can make you a much more in-demand developer on the job market. It's becoming an increasingly important concept in modern programming as multi-core devices become more and more prevalent. The good news is that Go has some outstanding support for concurrency out of the box that makes implementation a breeze. In fact, concurrency in Go is easier to implement and faster than in any other major language. In this course, you'll start off with a general introduction to concurrency and buil...Show More

Course Content

Introduction to Concurrency

7 Lessons

An Introduction to Concurrency

Concurrency vs. Parallelism

Communicating Sequential Processes

Data Races and Race Conditions

Deadlocks

Starvation

Quiz on Basic Concurrency Concepts

Building Blocks of Concurrency in Go

17 Lessons

Introduction to Goroutines

Goroutines: Explained Further

Channels

Buffered Channels

Exercise: Merge Sort

Solution Review: Merge Sort

Select Statement

Exercise: Buzz Game

Solution Review: Buzz Game

WaitGroups

Exercise: Multiplication Table

Solution Review: Multiplication Table

Mutex

The 'sync' Package

The 'runtime' Package

Prefix Sum Problem : A Concurrent Approach

Quiz on Building Blocks of Concurrency

Exam I on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

Basic Concurrency Patterns in Go

11 Lessons

Timeout using Select Statement

Exercise: Sum of Squares

Solution Review: Sum of Squares

Advanced Concurrency Patterns in Go

Quiz on Concurrency Patterns

Exam II on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

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