September 2018
Beginner
196 pages
4h 23m
English
Overview
Start your Julia programming journey with "Julia 1.0 Programming" by Ivo Balbaert. This book introduces you to Julia's key features and concepts, helping you leverage its high performance and productivity to create robust scientific and data applications. From setup to advanced features like macros and metaprogramming, this book covers it all.
What this Book will help me do
- Set up a working Julia environment to kickstart your journey with this powerful language.
- Extend Julia's built-in type system by creating and utilizing custom types.
- Effectively visualize your data using Julia's plotting packages.
- Use built-in Julia macros for improved debugging, testing, and workflow enhancement.
- Enhance your applications by integrating Julia with other programming languages like C, Python, and MATLAB.
Author(s)
Ivo Balbaert is an experienced professor and technical author specializing in programming languages and data science tools. With a focus on practical applications and clear explanations, his work aims to make complex technical topics accessible and approachable for all learners.
Who is it for?
This book is ideal for statisticians, data scientists, and developers familiar with basic mathematics who are looking to adopt Julia for data-heavy and computational tasks. Beginners and intermediate programmers alike will find this book a helpful resource to quickly gain actionable Julia knowledge and apply it in their work.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.