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Getting Started With Julia [Video]

By : Erik Engheim
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Book Image

Getting Started With Julia [Video]

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By: Erik Engheim

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 10
Parametric Types
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Section 1
Why Parametric Types?
Parametric types are types which can take a parameter as an argument to create a concrete type. This is common in languages such as Java and C++ but unusual in dynamically typed languages like Julia. - We’ll look at the motivation behind having them in Julia - A definition and explanation of what parametric types are - How they can be used