Write Asynchronous C# Code With Tasks and PLINQ (Udemy.com)

The lecturer has a very good grasp on the subject. I wish the course had more sections and had alot more exercises. The one exercise it has, is excellent. If you just add a few more, the course would be fantastic. You need to make sure that in the exercises, people are truly running the code in parallel because the editor doesn't know the difference. I added a .Wait() at the end of a continuation(making it a sequential algorithm) and it accepted my code. The way the lecturer speaks is a bit slow indeed but not a deal breaker.

The topics were interesting, but the PLINQ section was just about 2 lines of code that required half a dozen videos and it was very repetitive. Also, the hands-on exercise on Tasks doesn't work. I tried to do it directly on the platform, but couldn't, then I went to Visual Studio and ran the very first time. I copied everything back as it was directly on the platform and still didn't work. And since it is the only lecture not completed, I didn't get the certificate. And then there is the lack of the Parallel class. Too much talk about it along side Task and PLINQ, but not how to use it. Would have been nice to add it instead of so much about PLINQ for such little coding.

This is a review update, I have now gone through 5.5 Udemy async/parallel programming courses and decided to increase my ratings on both of Marks courses on this topic. They are perfect foundations and should be where everyone gets their introduction to Parallel programming. From there it depends on how deep you want to study, but Dmitri's is a must for going to the next level. Elias (Spock) also had a lot of breath, but hes not my ideal presenter.

I develop a lot of tools I use in my day to day job (Network Engineer). I am always on the watch for new techniques that may aid in the development of these tools... This class was very helpful in moving me towards parallelism for faster scanning and processing of my network processes to make the tools I develop more efficient... Thanks for the information...

The instructor has in-depth knowledge of the Multithreading programming. I have used multithreading a lot of times before. But still, I've learned lots of things from this course. I highly recommended it to everyone. The only downside is slow talking. I solved it by watching on speed 1.25 ;) Thank you for the course :)

Speed control of the spoken info is a good feature. The chalkboard emulation of written info for topics helped emphasize and enhance the distinction between topic info and its implementation in the C# source code expression. The only issue I had was with an erroneous response to the Quiz 2 Coding Exercise's 'Check Solution' action. It points to a line that does not relate to the error reported and the code runs correctly in VS 2017 with no error. Because the Check Solution action never returns OK, my course completion rating is stuck at 97%.

I bought this course a while back but didn't actually start taking it until yesterday. I wish I had started sooner, because this is a really good course. I have Mr. Farragher's other courses and they are also very good. His speaking style is very clear, and he takes the time to explain difficult concepts in a way that is easy to digest. For example, I liked his explanation and visual diagrams about AutoResetEvents. I never really understood it that well until now.

Overall, the course is a great resource to have access to when working or wanting to understand the ways of 'Multithreading'. However, the last part, on PLINQ, while very good, gets a loooot of repeating the same concepts.

It's already the 7th course I've taken with this instructor. I will let Homer Simpson describe what I think: "It's that Mark Farragher, Marge: he won't let me. One quality course after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If he only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but he won't! He won't let me live!" [S05EP22]

I have working in a lot of multithreaded applications, doing all the old fashioned way. Now knowing all this, from now on, multithreaded will be extremely less painful. Just one thing, will be nice to have the source code of the examples.

complex topics made simple

Very enlightening course.