Book description
Enter the exciting world of Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing
In Detail
Julia is a new open source programming language that is used in the field of data science computing. It was created to solve the dilemma between high-level slow code and fast but low-level code, and the necessity to use both to achieve high performance. This book will give you a head start to tackle your numerical and data problems with Julia. Your journey will begin by learning how to set up a running Julia platform before exploring its various built-in types. You will then move on to cover the different functions and constructs in Julia. The book will then walk you through the two important collection typesarrays and matrices. Over the course of the book, you will also be introduced to homoiconicity, the meta-programming concept in Julia.
Towards the concluding part of the book, you will also learn how to run external programs. This book will cover all you need to know about Julia to leverage its high speed and efficiency.
What You Will Learn
Set up your Julia environment to achieve the highest productivity
Solve your tasks in a high-level dynamic language and use types for your data only when needed
Create your own types to extend the built-in type system
Visualize your data in IJulia with plotting packages
Explore the use of built-in macros for testing, debugging, benchmarking, and more
Apply Julia to tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment
Integrate with other languages such as C, Python, and MATLAB
Table of contents
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Getting Started with Julia
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started with Julia
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- The Rationale for Julia
- 1. Installing the Julia Platform
- 2. Variables, Types, and Operations
- 3. Functions
- 4. Control Flow
- 5. Collection Types
- 6. More on Types, Methods, and Modules
- 7. Metaprogramming in Julia
- 8. I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing
- 9. Running External Programs
- 10. The Standard Library and Packages
- A. List of Macros and Packages
- Index
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Julia
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783284795
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