Parallel programming

Learning Outcomes. By the end of this course you will be able to:

• reason about task and data parallel programs,
• express common algorithms in a functional style and solve them in parallel,
• competently microbenchmark parallel code,
• write programs that effectively use parallel collections to achieve performance

Recommended background: You should have at least one year programming experience. Proficiency with Java or C# is ideal, but experience with other languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript or Ruby is also sufficient. You should have some familiarity using the command line. This course is intended to be taken after Functional Program Design in Scala: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun2.