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Learning Julia

By : Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal
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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

Summary


In this chapter, we talked in detail about the things that make Julia stand out as a different language from all other modern-day programming languages, and some features that it derives from the already existing ones. However, during the journey, we got to know about Julia internals and how to improve Julia programming performance. We talked in detail about some of the tips and tricks for hassle-free coding, along with a detailed overview of Julia's standard library. Going further down one level, we explored what the internals of LLVM and JIT were. Toward the end of the chapter, we explained how to achieve parallel programming and create TCP sockets and servers along with creating a package in Julia.

With this, we have come to the end of this book. We have tried our best out to give you a good and detailed explanation of topics that relate closely to Julia and its ecosystem.