Julia as a Second Language

✍ Scribed by Erik Engheim

• Publisher: Manning Publications Co.
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn Julia programming by building fun projects, like launching rockets, building password keepers, and even coding battle simulations.

Don’t be put off by Julia’s reputation as a scientific programming language. There’s no data science or numerical computing knowledge required. You can get started with what you learned in high school math classes.

Julia as a Second Language makes it easy to add Julia to your programming toolbox. You’ll learn about Julia’s type system and data structures by modeling the launch of a space rocket, use dictionaries to parse Roman numerals, discover tuples and arrays through tracking pizza sales, and use Julia’s unique multiple dispatch feature to send knights and archers into a simulated battle. By the time you’re finished, you’ll be confident in the foundations of Julia and ready to dive into a specialized field like machine learning or data science.

✦ Table of Contents

PART 1 - BASICS
1 Why Julia?
2 Julia as a calculator
3 Control flow
4 Julia as a spreadsheet
5 Working with text
6 Storing data in dictionaries
PART 2 - TYPES
7 Understanding types
8 Building a rocket
9 Conversion and promotion
10 Representing unknown values
PART 3 - COLLECTIONS
11 Working with strings
12 Understanding Julia collections
13 Working with sets
14 Working with vectors and matrices
PART 4 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
15 Functional programming in Julia
16 Organizing and modularizing your code
PART 5 - GOING IN DEPTH
17 Input and output
18 Defining parametric types