We’re cur­rently busy work­ing on assign­ments for the inter­nal exams here at Sant’Anna School¹ and we (well, Mirko) found a nice book for our par­al­lel pro­gram­ming project. It’s “A Lit­tle Book of Sem­a­phores”, freely avail­able here.

It’s a very nice col­lec­tion of con­cur­rency prob­lems, it deals with pretty much every one you could think of. So thank you pro­fes­sor Downey!

1. Well, we’re also work­ing on the usual stuff (ways to make big money, strange web 2.0 appli­ca­tions, high-performance-emulators, big robots, small robots, our many-times-acclaimed edi­tor for Wikipedia, world dom­i­na­tion, ...). [↩]