Balbaert Getting started with Julia Programming Language

Enter the exciting world of Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78328-480-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis 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.What you will learn - Set up your Julia environment to achieve the highest productivity
- Solve your tasks in a highlevel dynamic language and use types for your data only when needed
- Create your own types to extend the builtin type system
- Visualize your data in IJulia with plotting packages
- Explore the use of builtin macros for testing, debugging, benchmarking, and more
- Apply Julia to tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment
- Integrate with other languages such as C, Python, and MATLAB
Who this book is forThis 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balbaert, Ivo

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken

Über Autor(innen)

Balbaert Ivo :

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.