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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

Modules, Packages, and Data Type Concepts

This chapter discusses several organizational techniques for developing large-scale applications. Believe it or not, this is often something that is easily overlooked. When developing applications, we typically focus on building data types, functions, control flows, and so on. It is equally important, however, to organize the code properly so that it is clean and maintainable.

In the later part of this chapter, we will introduce Julia's type system. Data types are the most fundamental building blocks of any application. Julia's type system is one of its strongest features when compared to other programming languages. A solid understanding of the type system will enable us to achieve better designs.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The growing pains of developing applications
  • Working with namespaces, modules...