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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver

by David Riley, Kenny A. Hunt
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
405 pages
12h 16m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Chapter 11
Concurrent Activity
Multitasking? I can’t do two things at once. I can’t even do one thing
at a time.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
OBJECTIVES
To be able to explain the difference between parallelism and concur-
rency, and the role of supercomputers and distributed computing in
modern problem solving
To recognize basic constraints that prohibit simultaneous execution
322   ◾     Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
Events do not oen occur in a nice, neat, one-at-a-time sequence in real
life. Sometimes the wind blows at the ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793