1.2 Chapter Goals

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1.2 Chapter Goals

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Understand why concurrent programming is important.

• Give a working definition of a concurrent program.

• Understand the two types of synchronization and give examples of each.

• Give a definition of the term component and know what special problems can be encountered when using components.

• Describe several different reasons for doing concurrent programming and how each of these reasons leads to different design decisions and different program implementation.

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