Lecture: Ice Cream Store Problem

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Lecture Description

Guest Lecturer, Setup of the Ice Cream Store Problem, with Customer, Cashier, Clerk, and Manager Threads, The Different Constraints on the Various Types of Threads, Writing the Main Function, Spawning the Various Threads, Handling the Manager-Clerk Interaction Using the Inspection Struct, Which Uses a Semaphore to Signal to the Manager That the Clerk Is Ready for Inspection, As Well as a Semaphore that Ensures that the Clerk Will Wait for the Inspection to Finish, Writing the Manager Function, Which Performs Each of the Inspections and Signals When Each one Is Finished, Writing the Clerk Function, Which Makes Cones Until the Manager Inspects and Approves One; Why an Additional Semaphore Must Be Added That Protects the Manager Function, Why Each of the Semaphores Introduced So Far Is Needed, Writing the Customer Thread's Function, Which Spawns Clerk Threads to Deliver its Ice Cream Cones and Then Waits Until They Are All Finished, Creating and Protecting the Line Struct, Which Is Used to Keep Track of the Customers Waiting for the Cashier in Order, Writing the Cashier Thread's Function, Which Checks Out Each Person Waiting in Line in Order, Waiting if Needed

Course Description

Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#.

Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++. You should be comfortable with arrays, pointers, references, classes, methods, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, linked lists, binary search trees, hashing, iterators, and function pointers. You should be able to write well-decomposed, easy-to-understand code, and understand the value that comes with good variable names, short function and method implementations, and thoughtful, articulate comments.

from course: Computer Science III: Programming Paradigms