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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

By : Tom Kwong
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

By: Tom Kwong

Overview of this book

Design patterns are fundamental techniques for developing reusable and maintainable code. They provide a set of proven solutions that allow developers to solve problems in software development quickly. This book will demonstrate how to leverage design patterns with real-world applications. Starting with an overview of design patterns and best practices in application design, you'll learn about some of the most fundamental Julia features such as modules, data types, functions/interfaces, and metaprogramming. You'll then get to grips with the modern Julia design patterns for building large-scale applications with a focus on performance, reusability, robustness, and maintainability. The book also covers anti-patterns and how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in development. You'll see how traditional object-oriented patterns can be implemented differently and more effectively in Julia. Finally, you'll explore various use cases and examples, such as how expert Julia developers use design patterns in their open source packages. By the end of this Julia programming book, you'll have learned methods to improve software design, extensibility, and reusability, and be able to use design patterns efficiently to overcome common challenges in software development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Design Patterns
3
Section 2: Julia Fundamentals
7
Section 3: Implementing Design Patterns
15
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Traditional Object-Oriented Patterns

By now, we have already learned about the many design patterns that we need to know in order to be an effective Julia programmer. The cases presented in the previous chapters included various problems that we can solve by writing idiomatic Julia code. Some might ask, after all these years, I have learned and adapted to the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm; how do I apply the same concepts in Julia? The general answer is, you won't solve the problem the same way. The solution written in Julia will look different, reflecting a different programming paradigm. Nevertheless, it is still an interesting exercise to think about how to adopt some of the OOP techniques in Julia.

In this chapter, we will cover all 23 design patterns from the classic Gang of Four (GoFDesign Patterns book. We will keep the tradition and organize...