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Module 14: Concurrency and Multithreading

Lesson focus

Thread Lifecycle & Runnable vs Callable

Create threads responsibly and understand their states.

Threads transition through NEW, RUNNABLE, BLOCKED, WAITING, TIMED_WAITING, TERMINATED.

Runnable tasks return no result; Callable returns a value and can throw checked exceptions.

Prefer ExecutorService for pooling threads over manually creating Thread instances.

Lesson quiz

Which interface supports returning values from asynchronous tasks?

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