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Basics of Threading

Posted on July 12, 2018 by

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Threading is crucial to understand if you want your applications to be responsive to multiple users, to update a user interface while a long-running process proceeds in the background, or just to allow you to process multiple things at the same time.

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Get Low In High Level Languages

Posted on June 15, 2017 by

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If you regularly do software development in a higher level language, you’ll eventually run into a situation where you have to deal with the sort of problems that higher level languages are built to avoid. These problems may cause application crashes, data corruption, or performance problems until you get them sorted out. Worst of all, your experience in the higher-level language can often work against you in a lower-level one.

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