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Getting Started with Julia Programming
Table of Contents
Getting Started with Julia Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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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
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