Introduction to Julia Programming Training Course

Introduction

• Characteristics of the Julia programming language.
• History of Julia: origins, creation timeline, and creators.
• Julia resources

Development Environment

• Introduction to the cloud-based development environment.
• Terminal usage.
• REPL
• Loading and installing packages.
• IDE

Fundamental Types, Variables, and Operators

• Basic data types.
• Strings and interpolation.
• Variables
• Operators

Variables, Functions, and Operations

• Variables and constants.
• Declaring and calling functions and lambdas.
• Control flow, exception handling, and errors.

Scoping

• Function scopes.
• Global and local scoping.
• Blocks
• begin/end
• let/end
• Modules
• Data Structures
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Arrays
• Vectors
• Matrices & Linear Algebra
• Multidimensional arrays
• Dot notation (in functions)
• Missing values

Types

• Tuples and named tuples.
• Structs and mutability.
• Unions
• Abstract types and inheritance.
• Parametric types (generics) and inheritance.
• Value types
• Type checking

Methods and Constructors

• Multiple dispatch.
• Writing methods for abstract types.
• Constructors
• Print/show methods.
• Operator overloading.
• Interfaces

Metaprogramming

• Symbols
• Eval
• Expressions
• Interpolation
• Evaluation
• Building and calling macros.
• Code generation.
• @generated functions

Local Concurrency and Parallelism

• SIMD
• Parallelism.
• Tasks & Channels.
• Asynchronous programming.
• Multithreading.
• Performance optimization.

Tooling

• Unit testing.
• Performance benchmarking.
• Profiling.
• Logging.
• Debugging: stack traces.

I/O

• Reading and writing text and binary files.
• Delimited files.
• Memory mapped.
• Downloading files.