Knowledge

Conceptual foundations for web APIs, OS internals, and asynchronous Python. Read these before working on the practice assignments.

Reference Pages

• Web Concepts — HTTP, REST, and web communication

• File Descriptors — File descriptors and OS I/O model

• Event Loop — Sockets and event-driven I/O

• What asyncio is ? — Python asyncio and coroutines

• Threads vs Processes — Threading, GIL, and multiprocessing

• CPython vs Pure Python — CPython vs pure Python