Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chapter 14. Threads

At some point, you have to jump out of the plane under the assumption that you can get the

parachute sewn together in time to deploy it.

Jack Rickard

We usually write programs that operate one step at a time, in a sequence. In the following picture, the value of
a bank balance is fetched, it is increased by the value of the deposit, and then it is copied back into the account
record:

Real bank tellers and computer programs go through similar sequences. In a computer, a sequence of steps
executed one at a time is called a thread. This single-threaded programming model is the one most
programmers use.

In a real bank, more than one thing happens at a time: