Threading Basics in C

Learn the basics of threading in C with this sweet video.

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[ScanWs]

+Engineer Man awesome ...the only thing that is mostly absent on the web is good c tutorials ..make more of these

[cyberspek]

you should seriously do a c tutorial..you type it very fast and with confidence its great seeing you writing programs because you make it look easy.

[Dan-codes]

I really appreciate that you don't waste time messing around, just get right into the meat and potatoes. Thank you.

[mrlucmorin]

Short, straight to the point, no annoying music or endless introduction, good elocution at a good rate. I'd say perfection, but I don't want to give you the big head 😉

Thanks for your videos. If only youtubers would learn from you...

[RussTeeTrombone]

You're killing it man. Love these. Keep up the great work!

[brogrammer]

You taught me what my OS professor can't teach within 4 minutes. Nice video subscribed and liked

[ashwinnat]

Awesome video. Can you please make one regarding thread synchronization using mutexes, spin locks, etc

[ChristopherGray]

passing &num as an arg to pthread_create works fine with an integer (and probably other data types too), however it doesn't work when passing a char pointer (string), for anyone wondering how you'd do that, you would cast the char pointer to a void pointer when passing it to pthread_create() like the following: pthread_create(&thread, NULL, entry_point, (void *)example_string;

and you would cast it back to a char pointer once you're in the newly created thread like such:

void *entry_point(void *vptr_example_string)
{
char *example_string = (char *)vptr_example_string;
// now you can use the string here in the new thread
}

[lastsplasher_gore]

i love it but can you please show some example a bout threads please
like : how to iterate into an array or
how to append element of an array into pointer using threads
etc

[samjohnson]

Thank you for this. How about a threading tutorial in Gtk?

[taufiqsept]

C don't have references. What you're passing in is the address of the said variable name.

[kaushikdr]

The video was very nice, short, and concise and I think you can go deeper into this topic. Like, what happens if we don't do pthread_join? Also, what happens if we are accessing a global variable in our thread and adding a value from memory that is constantly changing (race condition?)

[umairgillani]

EM look a bit nervous, as I normally starts. And now he's is one of the mature Tech YouTubers :D

[mahsatahmouresi]

The third argument for the pthread_create should be a function pointer, not a function that returns int. What I mean is for example here number 1 is a function pointer not number 2 : 1) int (*func)(int, int) 2)int *func(int, int); and you used the 2nd one which is void *enterypoint (void *value); but I'm not sure so I'm asking :) because I know there is a different between 1 and 2

[alexpournaras]

Hello all. entry_point expects a void pointer but it gets an integer pointer.. why doesnt the compiler complain?

[ksp]

Hey great video. Just a stupid question: i am learning, so how can implement a thread if the function is using a boolean type? Any example, please?

[mathssoso]

Could you make a video about practical advantages of using threads, like a small example projet where threading is useful !!

[ivailomanolov]

Can someone explain to me the differencet between pointer and reference as thread parameter ? I looked it up in the internet but the things said were just a few and pretty hard to understand . I would appreciate it greatly :)

[zlovredniyTip]

+Engineer Man do you know any good tutorials/explanations on how to use pointers/refs in c. I confuse them :(

[supernenechi]

It's a universal truth that when you compile the first time you definitely forgot /n in at least one printf function you wrote xD