Preface
This book is intended to serve both as a textbook for a senior-level undergraduate course, and as a reference for practitioners.
Readers should know enough discrete mathematics to understand “big-O” notation, and what it means for a problem to be NP-complete. It is helpful to be familiar with elementary systems constructs such as processors, threads, and caches. A basic understanding of Java is needed to follow the examples. (We explain advanced language features before using them.) Two appendixes summarize what the reader needs to know: Appendix A covers programming language constructs, and Appendix B covers multiprocessor hardware architectures.
The first third covers the principles of concurrent programming, showing how to think like ...
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