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Getting Started With Julia [Video]

By : Erik Engheim, Chris von Csefalvay
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Book Image

Getting Started With Julia [Video]

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By: Erik Engheim, Chris von Csefalvay

Overview of this book

Julia is a new programming language designed for the needs of data scientists, statisticians, scientific computing, and engineers. Usually these disciplines have had to use a variety of of tools and languages: Matlab Python with Numpy R C/C++ or Fortran for high performance With Julia you can replace all these tools with one programming language, since it offers both flexibility and speed. Julia is a young language with limited documentation and although rapidly growing, a small user community. Most developers today will know the object oriented paradigm used in mainstream languages such as Python, Java and C++. This presents a challenge switching to Julia which is more functionally oriented. This course will not only introduce the language, but also explain how to think differently about problems with the Julia approach.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Chapter 3
Working with Types
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Section 4
Defining Your Own Types
Learn how to create your own Julia types by building types and functions to handle some of the common operations in a 2D drawing package. - Create a concrete type to represent a circle - Create more types with a shared abstract type - Look at how abstract types can be leveraged when creating functions