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Table of Contents

  • Understanding Asynchronous Programming
    • Building a Synchronous Web Server
    • Thinking Differently About Programming
  • Programming Parents: Not as Easy as It Looks!
    • Thought Experiment #1: The Synchronous Parent
    • Thought Experiment #2: The Polling Parent
    • Thought Experiment #3: The Threading Parent
  • Using Python Async Features in Practice
    • Synchronous Programming
    • Simple Cooperative Concurrency
    • Cooperative Concurrency With Blocking Calls
    • Cooperative Concurrency With Non-Blocking Calls
    • Synchronous (Blocking) HTTP Calls
    • Asynchronous (Non-Blocking) HTTP Calls
  • Conclusion