General Engineering

Question 1

Fork

Answer 1

Fork = copy of a process (called a child process). Heavyweight meaning does not share resources

Question 2

Thread

Answer 2

partial copy of a process, lightweight, resources can be shared between threads. Peer relationship

Question 3

Process

Answer 3

instance of a computer program executed by one to many threads

Question 4

‘this’ in c# function

Answer 4

used for extensions. allows you pass in the instance of a class that’s calling the function by just using instance.function instead of function(instance). Like if you wanted to add a new method to the string class

Question 5

c# - What does ‘void’ mean below?

public void SampleMethod()
{
    // Body of the method.
}

Answer 5

function has no return value