Concurrency in Java - Practical Multithreading - 2026

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Learn how to build faster, safer, and more responsive Java applications by mastering practical multithreading concepts. You will understand how threads work, why concurrency matters, and how to prevent common issues such as race conditions, thread interference, and inconsistent shared data. The course begins with Java multithreading fundamentals, then moves into creating, starting, managing, and interrupting threads. You will explore synchronization, thread communication with wait, notify, and notifyAll, and techniques for coordinating work between concurrent tasks. You will then progress into modern Java concurrency tools, including the Executor framework, thread pools, Fork/Join framework, atomic variables, thread-local variables, and the Lock framework. The course also covers thread groups and uncaught exception handling for more reliable applications. This beginner-to-intermediate course is ideal for Java developers, software engineers, and programming students with basic Java knowledge. By the end of the course, you will be able to create and manage threads, synchronize shared resources, use Java concurrency utilities, design thread-safe code, and handle exceptions in multithreaded applications.