Hour 19. Creating a Threaded Program

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Using an interface with a program

• Creating threads

• Starting, stopping, and pausing threads

• Catching errors

A computer term used often to describe the hectic pace of daily life is multitasking, which means to do more than one thing at once—such as browsing the Web at your desk while participating in a conference call and doing butt crunch exercises. A multitasking computer is one that can run more than one program at a time.

One sophisticated feature of the Java language is the ability to write programs that can multitask, which is made possible through a class of objects called threads.