README.md

Welcome to Session 6

Learning goals

By the end of Session 6, you should be able to:

• explain why shared resources need coordination
• use a mutex with threading.Lock
• use a semaphore with threading.Semaphore
• limit concurrent work in a practical I/O-style task
• design a small parallel resource-allocation project

Recommended order

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Optional Mini Project
4. Homework
5. Write your own work in solutions.
6. Review reference solutions only after attempting tasks yourself.
7. Practice with quizzes when ready.

Notes

• Tutorial and warm-up material is included directly inside each part markdown file.
• Keep your own solutions in separate files inside solutions/.
• Use exercise-style names in solutions/ (for example exercise-06-01.py, exercise-06-02.py).
• For the optional project, create solutions/exercise-06-project.py.
• For homework, create solutions/exercise-06-homework.md.
• Create your files inside solutions/ as you work through each part.
• Reference answers are in session_solutions/.
• If requirements.txt is missing, create it and add:
  • requests==2.32.3
  • Faker
  • quizmd
• Keep all dependencies in requirements.txt, then install with:
  • pip install -r requirements.txt