This course teaches learners (industry professionals and students) the fundamental concepts of parallel programming in the context of Java 8. Parallel programming enables developers to use multicore computers to make their applications run faster by using multiple processors at the same time. By the end of this course, you will learn how to use popular parallel Java frameworks (such as ForkJoin, Stream, and Phaser) to write parallel programs for a wide range of multicore platforms including servers, desktops, or mobile devices, while also learning about their theoretical foundations including computation graphs, ideal parallelism, parallel speedup, Amdahl's Law, data races, and determinism.
This course is part of the Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Programming in Java Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome to the Course!
Task Parallelism
Functional Parallelism
Talking to Two Sigma: Using it in the Field
Loop Parallelism
Data flow Synchronization and Pipelining
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- 5 stars68.91%
- 4 stars23.14%
- 3 stars6.39%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
Excellent Course.I always wanted a good course on java concurrency and parallel programming.And finish->async, isolated, forAsync constructs are awesome.I have learnt much from this course.
Great introduction to parallel programming. Lectures were clear, summaries were helpful, quizzes were not trivial, discussion forum is good, but the assignments' grading system could be improved.
Explanation of theory was best. But Assignments lacked clarity. For example, we might expect little more clarification about threads In order to use them effectively
Good introduction to the concepts of parallel programming, the programming assignments were a bit easy though and could be made harder to improve the learning experience.
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