{"id":8046,"date":"2013-10-19T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2013-10-19T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T17:37:04","slug":"the-little-book-of-semaphores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/the-little-book-of-semaphores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Book of Semaphores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenteapress.com\/semaphores\/\">The Little Book of Semaphores<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathandann\/status\/391347302129885184\">Jonathan Dann<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.greenteapress.com\/semaphores\/\"><p>\n<i>The Little Book of Semaphores<\/i> is a free (in\nboth senses of the word) textbook that introduces the principles of\nsynchronization for concurrent programming.\n<\/p><p>\nIn most computer science curricula, synchronization is a module\nin an Operating Systems class.  OS textbooks present a standard\nset of problems with a standard set of solutions, but most students\ndon't get a good understanding of the material or the ability\nto solve similar problems.\n<\/p><p>\nThe approach of this book is to identify\npatterns that are useful for a variety of synchronization\nproblems and then show how they can be assembled into solutions.\nAfter each problem, the book offers a hint before showing a\nsolution, giving students a better chance of discovering solutions\non their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Book of Semaphores (via Jonathan Dann): The Little Book of Semaphores is a free (in both senses of the word) textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming. In most computer science curricula, synchronization is a module in an Operating Systems class. OS textbooks present a standard set of problems with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[63,263,71],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-book","tag-theory","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}