[kwlug disc.] how long would it take you to learn threads programming?

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On April 22, 2008 12:45:03 pm R. Brent Clements wrote:
> I remember I spent about a week or so studying the theory of
> concurrent processing, covering both multithreaded and and large scale
> parallel.  The practical was a single afternoon lab exercise.

As I said, the difference between theory and practise is that in theory, there 
is no difference between theory and practise.

While I do not doubt that a single afternoon would give you some practical 
knowledge on stringing together the API calls to get a multithreaded 
application, I do not believe it will give you enough time to create some 
truly challenging bugs and give you an opportunity to demonstrate how to 
identify and correct some of the nastier traps that hit you in multithreaded 
programming.

I could, however, just be thicker than most people.  My wife complains of it 
on occasion.  :-)

-A.