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Learning Julia

By : Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal
Book Image

Learning Julia

By: Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal

Overview of this book

Julia is a highly appropriate language for scientific computing, but it comes with all the required capabilities of a general-purpose language. It allows us to achieve C/Fortran-like performance while maintaining the concise syntax of a scripting language such as Python. It is perfect for building high-performance and concurrent applications. From the basics of its syntax to learning built-in object types, this book covers it all. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Julia to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers/statisticians/data scientists who want to add Julia to their skill-set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Julia and in-depth informative examples, using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple mathematical operations, creating loops, metaprogramming, functions, collections, multiple dispatch, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply your skills in Julia to create and explore applications of any domain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
8
Data Visualization and Graphics

Standard library


Julia's standard library is rich. It is vast and offers lots of functions that can ease the daily work of a programmer/data scientists. Along with a very good support for almost all the functionalities provided by other modern day programming languages, it has a great in-built support for mathematical and statistical functions.

This section will briefly describe the standard Julia library along with some examples to make things easier for you. As per the official documentation given on the Julia website https://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.6/#Standard-Library-1, the standard library can be distributed in the following subheadings:

  • Essentials
  • Collections and data structures
  • Mathematics
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Arrays
  • Tasks and parallel computing
  • Linear algebra
  • Constants
  • Filesystem
  • I/O and network
  • Punctuation
  • Sorting and related functions
  • Package manager functions
  • Dates and time
  • Iteration utilities
  • Unit testing
  • C Interface
  • C standard library
  • Dynamic linker
  • Profiling
  • StackTraces
  • SIMD support

Although explaining...