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Julia Programming Projects

You're reading from   Julia Programming Projects Learn Julia 1.x by building apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292740
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adrian Salceanu Adrian Salceanu
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Julia Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Our First Julia App 3. Setting Up the Wiki Game 4. Building the Wiki Game Web Crawler 5. Adding a Web UI for the Wiki Game 6. Implementing Recommender Systems with Julia 7. Machine Learning for Recommender Systems 8. Leveraging Unsupervised Learning Techniques 9. Working with Dates, Times, and Time Series 10. Time Series Forecasting 11. Creating Julia Packages 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Beginning with test-driven Julia development

Test-driven development is a software development practice based on a simple workflow that puts automated testing center stage. The basic idea is that the requirements are turned into very specific, well-defined, and targeted test cases. Each test should address only one piece of functionality. Once the test is ready, we run the whole test suite. Obviously, as we first write the test, it will initially fail. Next, we add the minimal implementation to make the test pass. That's it—all we need to do is repeat the same process until all the requirements are implemented. This approach ensures that our code base is thoroughly tested and that we focus on delivering just the requirements, avoiding feature creep.

Julia provides built-in unit testing capabilities under the Test module. It is very straightforward and easy to...

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