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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

By : Anghel Leonard
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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

By: Anghel Leonard

Overview of this book

Java is one of the most sought-after programming languages in the job market, but cracking the coding interview in this challenging economy might not be easy. This comprehensive guide will help you to tackle various challenges faced in a coding job interview and avoid common interview mistakes, and will ultimately guide you toward landing your job as a Java developer. This book contains two crucial elements of coding interviews - a brief section that will take you through non-technical interview questions, while the more comprehensive part covers over 200 coding interview problems along with their hands-on solutions. This book will help you to develop skills in data structures and algorithms, which technical interviewers look for in a candidate, by solving various problems based on these topics covering a wide range of concepts such as arrays, strings, maps, linked lists, sorting, and searching. You'll find out how to approach a coding interview problem in a structured way that produces faster results. Toward the final chapters, you'll learn to solve tricky questions about concurrency, functional programming, and system scalability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve Java coding problems commonly used in interviews, and will have developed the confidence to secure your Java-centric dream job.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Non-Technical Part of an Interview
7
Section 2: Concepts
12
Section 3: Algorithms and Data Structures
19
Section 4: Bonus – Concurrency and Functional Programming

Chapter 16: Concurrency

Developing single-threaded Java applications is rarely feasible. Therefore, most of your projects will be multithreaded (that is, they will run in a multithreaded environment). This means that, sooner or later, you'll have to tackle certain multithreading problems. In other words, at some point, you'll have to get your hands dirty with code that manipulates Java threads directly or via dedicated APIs.

This chapter covers the most popular questions about Java concurrency (multithreading) that occur in general interviews about the Java language. As usual, we will start with a brief introduction that covers the main aspects of Java concurrency. Therefore, our agenda is straightforward, covering the following topics:

  • Java concurrency (multithreading) in a nutshell
  • Questions and coding challenges

Let's begin with the fundamental knowledge of our topic, Java concurrency. Use the following nutshell section to extract answers to...