Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

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Why Julia?

Julia was initially launched in 2012 by Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, Jeff Bezanson, and Viral Shah. It is a free and open supply programming language. Choosing a programming language is at all times subjective. For me, the next traits of Julia are decisive:

Julia is developed as a high-performance programming language.Julia makes use of a number of dispatch, which permits the programmer to select from totally different programming patterns tailored to the appliance.Julia is a dynamically typed language that may simply be used interactively.Julia has a good high-level syntax that’s simple to be taught.Julia is an optionally typed programming language whose (user-defined) knowledge varieties make the code clearer and extra sturdy.Julia has an prolonged commonplace library and quite a few third-party packages can be found.

Julia is a distinctive programming language as a result of it solves the so-called “two languages problem.” No different programming language is required to write high-performance code. This doesn’t imply it occurs mechanically. It is the accountability of the programmer to optimize the code that types a bottleneck, however this could finished in Julia itself.

Who Is This Book For?

This guide is for anybody who desires to be taught to program. No formal prior data is required. New ideas are launched regularly and extra superior matters are described in later chapters.

Think Julia can be utilized for a one-semester course at the highschool, or faculty degree.

Publisher‏:‎O’Reilly Media; 1st version (May 14, 2019)
Language‏:‎English
Paperback‏:‎298 pages
ISBN-10‏:‎1492045039
ISBN-13‏:‎978-1492045038
Item Weight‏:‎1 kilos
Dimensions‏:‎7 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches