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Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

By : Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu
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Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

By: Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu

Overview of this book

Julia offers the high productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++. There’s never been a better time to learn this language, thanks to its large-scale adoption across a wide range of domains, including fintech, biotech and artificial intelligence (AI). You will begin by learning how to set up a running Julia platform, before exploring its various built-in types. This Learning Path walks you through two important collection types: arrays and matrices. You’ll be taken through how type conversions and promotions work, and in further chapters you'll study how Julia interacts with operating systems and other languages. You’ll also learn about the use of macros, what makes Julia suitable for numerical and scientific computing, and how to run external programs. Once you have grasped the basics, this Learning Path goes on to how to analyze the Iris dataset using DataFrames. While building a web scraper and a web app, you’ll explore the use of functions, methods, and multiple dispatches. In the final chapters, you'll delve into machine learning, where you'll build a book recommender system. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be well versed with Julia and have the skills you need to leverage its high speed and efficiency for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Julia 1.0 Programming - Second Edition by Ivo Balbaert • Julia Programming Projects by Adrian Salceanu
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Sets

Array elements are ordered, but can contain duplicates, that is, the same value can occur at different indices. In a dictionary, keys have to be unique, but the values do not, and the keys are not ordered. If you want a collection where order does not matter, but where the elements have to be unique, then use a Set. Creating a set is as easy as this:

// code in Chapter 5\sets.jl: 
s = Set([11, 14, 13, 7, 14, 11])

The Set() function creates an empty set Set(Any[]). The preceding line returns Set([7, 14, 13, 11]), where the duplicates have been eliminated.

Operations from the set theory are also defined for s1 = Set([11, 25]) and s2 = Set([25, 3.14]) as follows:

  • union(s1, s2) produces Set([3.14,25,11])
  • intersect(s1, s2) produces Set([25])
  • setdiff(s1, s2) produces Set{Any}([11]), whereas setdiff(s2, s1) produces Set([ 3.14])
  • issubset(s1, s2) produces false, but issubset(s1...