Part I. Module 1
Getting Started with Julia
Enter the exciting world of Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing
The Rationale for Julia
This introduction will present you with the reasons why Julia is quickly growing in popularity in the technical, data scientist, and high-performance computing arena. We will cover the following topics:
- The scope of Julia
- Julia's place among other programming languages
- A comparison with other languages for the data scientist
- Useful links
The scope of Julia
The core designers and developers of Julia (Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral Shah) have made it clear that Julia was born out of a deep frustration with the existing software toolset in the technical computing disciplines. Basically, ...
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