Introduction to Julia Programming Training Course

Introduction

• What type of programming language is Julia?
• The origins, timeline, and creators of Julia.
• Julia resources

Development Environment

• Overview of the cloud development environment
• Terminal
• 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
• Defining methods for abstract types
• Constructors
• Print/show methods
• Operator overloading
• Interfaces

Metaprogramming

• Symbols
• Eval
• Expressions
• Interpolation
• Evaluation
• Defining and building 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