05339nam 2200709 450 991078815550332120211220202220.01-78328-480-3(CKB)2670000000599096(EBL)1973847(SSID)ssj0001468758(PQKBManifestationID)11790603(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001468758(PQKBWorkID)11524971(PQKB)10332078(Au-PeEL)EBL1973847(CaPaEBR)ebr11025933(CaONFJC)MIL734280(OCoLC)904425902(CaSebORM)9781783284795(MiAaPQ)EBC1973847(PPN)227982029(EXLCZ)99267000000059909620150313h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGetting started with Julia programming enter the exciting world of Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing /Ivo Balbaert ; commissioning editor Kevin Colaco ; content development editor Neeshma Ramakrishnan ; copy editor Rashmi Sawant1st editionBirmingham, England ;Mumbai, [India] :Packt Publishing,2015.©20151 online resource (214 p.)Community Experience DistilledIncludes index.1-78328-479-X 1-336-02994-3 Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; The Rationale for Julia; Chapter 1: Installing the Julia Platform; Installing Julia; Windows version - usable from Windows XP SP2 onwards; Ubuntu version; OS X; Building from source; Working with Julia's shell; Startup options and Julia scripts; Packages; Adding a new package; Installing and working with Julia Studio; Installing and working with IJulia; Installing Sublime-IJulia; Installing Juno; Other editors and IDEs; How Julia works; SummaryChapter 2: Variables, Types, and OperationsVariables, 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; How to convert an array of chars to a string; Dates and times; Scope and constants; Summary; Chapter 3: Functions; Defining functions; Optional and keyword arguments; Anonymous functions; First-class functions and closuresRecursive functionsMap, filter, and list comprehensions; Generic functions and multiple dispatch; Summary; Chapter 4: Control Flow; Conditional evaluation; Repeated evaluation; The for loop; The while loop; The break statement; The continue statement; Exception handling; Scope revisited; Tasks; Summary; Chapter 5: Collection Types; Matrices; Tuples; Dictionaries; Keys and values - looping; Sets; Making a set of tuples; Example project - word frequency; Summary; Chapter 6: More on Types, Methods, and Modules; Type annotations and conversions; Type conversions and promotionsThe type hierarchy - subtypes and supertypesConcrete and abstract types; User-defined and composite types; When are two values or objects equal or identical?; Multiple dispatch example; Types and collections - inner constructors; Type unions; Parametric types and methods; Standard modules and paths; Summary; Chapter 7: Metaprogramming in Julia; Expressions and symbols; Eval and interpolation; Defining macros; Built-in macros; Testing; Debugging; Benchmarking; Starting a task; Reflection capabilities; Summary; Chapter 8: I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing; Basic input and outputWorking with filesReading and writing CSV files; Using DataFrames; Other file formats; Working with TCP sockets and servers; Interacting with databases; Parallel operations and computing; Creating processes; Using low-level communications; Parallel loops and maps; Distributed arrays; Summary; Chapter 9: Running External Programs; Running shell commands; Interpolation; Pipelining; Calling C and FORTRAN; Calling Python; Performance tips; Tools to use; Summary; Chapter 10: The Standard Library and Packages; Digging deeper into the standard library; Julia's package managerInstalling and updating packagesThis book is for you if you are a data scientist or working on any technical or scientific computation projects. The book assumes you have a basic working knowledge of high-level dynamic languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Ruby.Community experience distilled.Numerical analysisComputer programsMathematical analysisComputer programsNumerical analysisComputer programs.Mathematical analysisComputer programs.001.6420151Balbaert Ivo898566Colaco KevinRamakrishnan NeeshmaSawant Rashmi MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788155503321Getting started with Julia programming3709602UNINA