Question

I want to work on multi-threading, but my current project do not have such opportunities. Can someone please guide me where should I start. I need real time scenarios so that I can directly jump onto coding. I am reading side by side as well.

Can you please refer some websites for practicing.

Answer 1

Google can transfer you to practicing tutorial websites (much better than I can). A nice real time scenario could include any of the following (may seem academic, but the skills are absolutely transferable to practice):

1. Dining philosopher’s problem.
2. Reader/Writer problem.
3. Consumer/Producer problem.

Some more specific ones:

1. Concurrent alpha-beta search (this is seriously tricky).
2. Any genetic algorithm can be implemented concurrently and since memory/storage are shared amongst threads, it can be quite challenging if done right (try the semi-transparent polygon drawing an image project. You can search google for that).
3. Concurrent database-access can be rather interesting. Sketch a scenario for yourself.
4. Have a look at http://projecteuler.net/ which includes a bunch of interesting problems. Many of the problems there can be implemented using threads.

Enjoy.