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Asynchrony

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CS-305: Software engineering

This course teaches the basics of modern software development: designing software, working in a team, writing good code, shipping software, and evolving software. It emphasizes building software that meets high standards of quality, reliability, security, ...

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This lecture covers the purpose of services in the Android ecosystem, app permissions, usage of Intents, differences in designing mobile vs desktop apps, methods for users to take pictures, handling synchronous and asynchronous operations in Java, dealing with callback hell, CompletableFuture in Java, rate limits in API requests, cooperative cancellation, and testing asynchronous code for maintainability and reliability.

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George Candea

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