Grokking Multithreading and Concurrency for Coding Interviews

Unlock the Power of Multithreading: Ace Multithreading Coding Problems for Interviews

Level:
Beginner
Study Time:
20h
Lessons:
30
Playgrounds:
24
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(598 ratings)
1,757 learners
Arslan Ahmad
Created byArslan Ahmad
Ex FAANG Manager, Expert Behind Grokking Multithreading and Concurrency for Coding Interviews

Course Overview

In today’s fast-paced tech industry, understanding the intricacies of multithreading and concurrency is crucial for any software engineer. The "Grokking Multithreading and Concurrency for Coding Interviews" course is designed to break down these challenging concepts and prepare you for the toughest coding interviews. Through detailed explanations, practical examples, and interactive coding challenges, you will gain a robust understanding of how to implement, manage, and maximize concurrency and multithreading in software development. Each topic is tailored to build your expertise incrementally, ensuring you grasp the fundamentals before progressing to more advanced subjects. This course not only clarifies how to use threads safely and efficiently but also tackles how to optimize performance and avoid common issues such as race conditions and deadlocks. With sections devoted to synchronization techniques, advanced concurrency mechanisms, and problem-solving strategies, learners of all levels will find valuable insights to enhance their programming skills. Prepare to navigate the complexities of concurrency with confidence and turn knowledge into a clear competitive advantage during your next coding interview.

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Course Content

• Chapters • 30 Lessons
1.

Introduction to Multithreading and Concurrency

8 lessons

What is Multithreading and Concurrency?

Why Multithreading and Concurrency Are Essential Today

Program, Process, and Thread: A Quick Look

Thread Life Cycle Within Concurrency

Diving Deeper into Threads

Fork/Join Approach to Concurrency

Critical Section and Race Condition

Synchronization Constructs

2.

Examples of Synchronization Constructs

5 lessons

1. Mutex (Lock)

2. Read/Write Locks

3. Semaphore

4. Condition Variables

5. Barriers

3.

Coding Problems (Easy)

6 lessons

Problem 1: Linear Search with finding one occurrence

Problem 2: Linear Search for All Occurrences

Problem 3: Linear Search with Indices and Occurrences

Problem 4: Min/Max/Sum

Problem 5: Pi calculation

Problem 6: Odd-Even sort

4.

Coding Problems (Medium)

5 lessons

Problem 7: FizzBuzz Multithreading Problem

Problem 8: ZeroEvenOdd Multithreading Problem

Problem 9: Print in Order using multithreading

Problem 10: Leap Year Detector Multithreading Problem

Problem 11: Palindrome Multithreaded Investigator

5.

Coding Problems (Hard)

6 lessons

Problem 12: Building H2O

Problem 13: Synchronization of Dual Threads

Problem 14: Advanced Synchronization in Multi-Buffered Master-Worker Thread Pools

Problem 15: The Dining Philosophers

Problem 16: Scenario: Multithreaded Web Crawler

Problem 17: Traffic-Light-Controlled Intersection Synchronization

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About the Author

Arslan Ahmad

Arslan Ahmad

Design Gurus Founder
Ex-FAANG Manager
Meta
Microsoft
Google
Amazon
Uber

Industry Expertise & Leadership

Arslan Ahmad is the lead author of Grokking Multithreading and Concurrency for Coding Interviews. As the founder of Design Gurus and a former FAANG hiring manager, he has worked at industry giants like Facebook (now Meta) and Microsoft.

He has conducted hundreds of system design interviews, giving him unique insight into what top tech companies look for in candidates.

The course also incorporates expertise from senior engineers at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber, ensuring you learn system design best practices from professionals who have built and scaled real-world systems.

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