Getting Started with Julia : Enter the Exciting World of Julia, a High-Performance Language for Technical Computing.

Intro -- Getting Started with Julia -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started with Julia -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- The Rationale for Julia -- The scope of Julia -- Julia's place among the other programming languages -- A comparison with other languages for the data scientist -- MATLAB -- R -- Python -- Useful links -- Summary -- 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 -- Summary -- 2. 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 -- How to convert an array of chars to a string -- Dates and times -- Scope and constants -- Summary -- 3. Functions -- Defining functions -- Optional and keyword arguments -- Anonymous functions -- First-class functions and closures -- Recursive functions -- Map, filter, and list comprehensions -- Generic functions and multiple dispatch.

Summary -- 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 -- 5. Collection Types -- Matrices -- Tuples -- Dictionaries -- Keys and values - looping -- Sets -- Making a set of tuples -- Example project - word frequency -- Summary -- 6. More on Types, Methods, and Modules -- Type annotations and conversions -- 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? -- Multiple dispatch example -- Types and collections - inner constructors -- Type unions -- Parametric types and methods -- Standard modules and paths -- Summary -- 7. Metaprogramming in Julia -- Expressions and symbols -- Eval and interpolation -- Defining macros -- Built-in macros -- Testing -- Debugging -- Benchmarking -- Starting a task -- Reflection capabilities -- Summary -- 8. I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing -- Basic input and output -- Working with files -- Reading 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 -- 9. Running External Programs -- Running shell commands -- Interpolation -- Pipelining -- Calling C and FORTRAN -- Calling Python -- Performance tips -- Tools to use -- Summary -- 10. The Standard Library and Packages -- Digging deeper into the standard library -- Julia's package manager -- Installing and updating packages -- Publishing a package -- Graphics in Julia -- Using Gadfly on data -- Summary.

A. List of Macros and Packages -- Macros -- List of packages -- Index.

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