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You're reading from Julia 1.0 Programming Dynamic and high-performance programming to build fast scientific applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788999090

Length 196 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Julia

Tools

MATLAB

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Ivo Balbaert

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing the Julia Platform FREE CHAPTER

2. Variables, Types, and Operations

3. Functions

4. Control Flow

5. Collection Types

6. More on Types, Methods, and Modules

7. Metaprogramming in Julia

8. I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing

9. Running External Programs

10. The Standard Library and Packages

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

By now, you should have been able to install Julia in the working environment you prefer using. You should also have some experience with working in the REPL. We will put this to good use starting in the next chapter, where we will meet the basic data types in Julia by testing out everything in the REPL.

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Authors (1)

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert is a lecturer in web programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (at KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen). He also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, published by Van Duuren Media. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way to Go, published by iUniverse. He has written a number of introductory books for new programming languages, notably Dart, Julia, Rust, and Red, all published by Packt.

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