Learn Multithreading with Modern C++

An understanding of multithreading is essential to make full use of the capabilities of modern hardware.

Modern C++ provides direct support for threads, so it is now possible to write multithreaded programs in C++ which are portable and have well–defined behaviour, without requiring external libraries.

This course focuses on the principles of multithreading, using Modern C++. No previous knowledge of multithreading is required but you should be familiar with programming in C++.

The course begins by reviewing the features of Modern C++ which are used in this course. If you feel you require a more thorough coverage of Modern C++, you can get this by taking my course Learn Advanced Modern C++ .

We then cover the basic concepts of multithreading and learn how to launch threads in C++. We look at the problems which can occur with multiple threads and how to avoid them.

C++ provides tools which allow us to work at a higher level of abstraction than system threads using shared data; we cover condition variables and promises with futures. We will also look at asynchronous, lock–free and parallel programming, including the parallel algorithms in C++17. Finally, we will implement a concurrent queue and thread pool, which you can use in your own code.