Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

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Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

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Installing the Julia Platform

Installing Julia

Windows OS

OS X

Linux OS

Building from source

JuliaPro

Working with Julia's REPL

Startup options and Julia scripts

Packages

Adding a new package

Installing and working with IJulia

Installing Juno

Installing julia-vscode

Installing Sublime-IJulia

Other editors and IDEs

How Julia works

Summary

Variables Types and Operations

Variables naming conventions and comments

Types

Integers

Floating point numbers

Elementary mathematical functions and operations

Rational and complex numbers

Characters

Strings

Formatting numbers and strings

Regular expressions

Ranges and arrays

Other ways to create arrays

Some common functions for arrays

Dates and times

Scope and constants

Summary

Functions

Defining functions

Optional and keyword arguments

Anonymous functions

First-class functions and closures

functions

Broadcasting

Map filter and list comprehensions

Generic functions and multiple dispatch

Summary

Control Flow

Conditional evaluation

Repeated evaluation

for loops

while loops

The break statement

The continue statement

Exception handling

Scope revisited

Tasks

Summary

Collection Types

Matrices

Tuples

Dictionaries

Keys and values – looping

Sets

An example project – word frequency

Summary

More on Types Methods and Modules

Type annotations

Type conversions and promotions

The type hierarchy – subtypes and supertypes

Concrete and abstract types

User-defined and composite types

When are two values or objects equal or identical?

A multiple-dispatch example

Types and collections – inner constructors

Type unions

Parametric types and methods

Standard modules and paths

Summary

Metaprogramming in Julia

Expressions and symbols

Evaluation and interpolation

Defining macros