What are some good resources for learning threaded programming? [closed]

Answer 1

For a great guide and reference for concurrency programming in C# (or .NET in general) I'd recommend the MSDN What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps article by Vance Morrison on MSDN. It contains a great deal of best-practice information and caveats about multithread development

Answer 2

Take a look at Herb Sutter's "The Free Lunch Is Over" and then his series of articles on Effective Concurrency.

Answer 3

CPU manufacturers websites have some interesting content:

http://developer.amd.com/documentation/articles/Pages/default.aspx#parallel

http://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-core

Also Intel's opensource threading library has some good references:

http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/

Answer 4

The Erlang programming language provides an easy-to-use style of concurrent programming. You may never actually use Erlang, but the concepts are transportable to other languages. You might want to read the book Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World .

Fans of functional programming claim that there is no need to learn anything new. Just use a pure functional language, and the compiler or interpreter will automatically parallelize everything. So you might want to learn Haskell, OCaml, or another functional language.

Answer 5

I don't know what exactly you are looking for, but if you are doing WindowsForms development the following blog post is worth every minute reading: WinForms UI Thread Invokes: An In-Depth Review of Invoke/BeginInvoke/InvokeRequred

Answer 6

For a rich, thorough treatment of the subject, with a good balance between computer science and practice, I recommend The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. A lot of examples are in object-oriented code, i.e. Java, with other languages scattered throughout. It just depends on the topic being covered. What I really love about this book is that it discusses how common algorithms should be implemented in a concurrent design. Of course, there's so much more!

For general concepts and a treatment of pthreads, I really like Programming with POSIX Threads. Being the library and API that it is, it's in C.

For Windows and C# developers, check out Joe Duffy's blog. Joe works on parallel libraries, infrastructure, and programming models in Microsoft's Developer Division. He has a book coming in Nov. 2008 titled Concurrent Programming on Windows (Amazon link).

Also, don't miss the Godfather's blog: Herb Sutter's Sutter's Mill. He has links to all his articles in Dr. Dobb's Journal and more. Click his Concurrency category.