C# Threading: Exercises for beginners

Question

So far I have been trying to master threading by immediately implementing threads in my project. And I have been trying to do that for a long time. But this hasn't resulted any results, nor gave me any experience with threading. The only thing that the attempting gave me is the impression that threading in C# has many important refinements.

I couldn't find any simple exercises about threading. I'm searching for exercises where you have to make different simple console applications. I am searching for simple exercises so I can get an idea of how things work when working with threads and master that idea. I have seen a book of programming exercises with difficulty that gets harder as the problem's number gets bigger. I am searching for something similar. Afterwards I will continue with more complicated stuff and try to add threads in my project (which is made with Windows Forms).

Where can I find exercises/book of exercises about threading in C#?

EDIT:

I am NOT looking for any tutorials- I can find them myself. I am searching for exercises and exercises only. If there are no such exercises, please, tell me.

Answer 1

Simple exercises:

1) change code that works (learn by example)

• open any tutorial
• find code samples
• play with code samples, see what works and what does not

2) answer questions on SO (learn by teaching)

• find an interesting question
• answer it (you should do a research to do this)
• talk and interact with other users

Answer 2

Joseph Albahari has a great article called Threading in C#. This is really cool blog post about start to learn for threading in C#. Joseph clearly explained:

• Introduction and Concepts
• Join and Sleep
• How Threading Works
• Creating and Starting Threads
• Thread Pooling

And check this out article from Codeproject.

• Getting Started

You can create and start a new thread by instantiating a Thread object and calling its Start method. The simplest constructor for Thread takes a ThreadStart delegate: a parameterless method indicating where execution should begin.

using System;
using System.Threading;

class ThreadTest
{
   static void Main()
   {
      Thread t = new Thread (WriteY); // Kick off a new thread
      t.Start(); // running WriteY()
      // Simultaneously, do something on the main thread.
      for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) Console.Write ("x");
   }
   static void WriteY()
   {
      for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) Console.Write ("y");
      }
}

// Output:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyy
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
yyyyyyyyyyyyyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
...

If you want to learn threading deeply get a copy of C# 4.0 in a Nutshell