Vaskaran Sarcar obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), and an MCA from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (India). He was a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009) and has over 12 years of experience in education and the IT industry. He devoted his early years (2005-2007) to the teaching profession at various engineering colleges, and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub in Bangalore. He worked there until August 2019 and became a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead. After working for more than ten years at HP, he decided to follow his passion completely. He is now an independent full-time author.

"The book is an enjoyable read and easy to follow, and at the same time detailed enough to give students an idea of the challenges and solutions in concurrent systems. It uses C# and .NET as object-oriented language examples to showcase the algorithms, but it will also be useful to anyone designing message passing interface (MPI)-kind software where they are figuring out how to parallelize a large piece of software." (Mariam Kiran, Computing Reviews, January 29, 2025)

• Chapter 1: Understanding Tasks.- Chapter 2: Handling Special Scenarios.- Chapter 3:  Exploring Synchronization and Concurrent Collections.- Chapter 4: Working on Parallel Loops.- Chapter 5: Parallel LiNQ.- Chapter 6: Simplifying Asynchronous Programs.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.

Vaskaran Sarcar obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), and an MCA from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (India). He was a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009) and has over 12 years of experience in education and the IT industry. He devoted his early years (2005-2007) to the teaching profession at various engineering colleges, and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub in Bangalore. He worked there until August 2019 and became a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead. After working for more than ten years at HP, he decided to follow his passion completely. He is now an independent full-time author.

"The book is an enjoyable read and easy to follow, and at the same time detailed enough to give students an idea of the challenges and solutions in concurrent systems. It uses C# and .NET as object-oriented language examples to showcase the algorithms, but it will also be useful to anyone designing message passing interface (MPI)-kind software where they are figuring out how to parallelize a large piece of software." (Mariam Kiran, Computing Reviews, January 29, 2025)

• Chapter 1: Understanding Tasks.- Chapter 2: Handling Special Scenarios.- Chapter 3:  Exploring Synchronization and Concurrent Collections.- Chapter 4: Working on Parallel Loops.- Chapter 5: Parallel LiNQ.- Chapter 6: Simplifying Asynchronous Programs.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.

Vaskaran Sarcar obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), and an MCA from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (India). He was a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009) and has over 12 years of experience in education and the IT industry. He devoted his early years (2005-2007) to the teaching profession at various engineering colleges, and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub in Bangalore. He worked there until August 2019 and became a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead. After working for more than ten years at HP, he decided to follow his passion completely. He is now an independent full-time author.

"The book is an enjoyable read and easy to follow, and at the same time detailed enough to give students an idea of the challenges and solutions in concurrent systems. It uses C# and .NET as object-oriented language examples to showcase the algorithms, but it will also be useful to anyone designing message passing interface (MPI)-kind software where they are figuring out how to parallelize a large piece of software." (Mariam Kiran, Computing Reviews, January 29, 2025)

• Chapter 1: Understanding Tasks.- Chapter 2: Handling Special Scenarios.- Chapter 3:  Exploring Synchronization and Concurrent Collections.- Chapter 4: Working on Parallel Loops.- Chapter 5: Parallel LiNQ.- Chapter 6: Simplifying Asynchronous Programs.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.