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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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The previous steps listed aren't all-inclusive. Designing parallel programs takes a lot of practice, and you can find college courses that are nothing but parallel programming, such as https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-337j-parallel-computing-fall-2011/.

It also can't be overstated that you should take the time to determine whether the problem you're trying to answer can be parallelized. One example used in computer science is sorting algorithms. For example, if you have a group of numbers that need to be sorted smallest to largest, you could break the entire group into multiples of two, that is, compare two numbers to each other. Each of these subgroups could then be compared simultaneously. Then, you merge some ...

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