Introduction to Julia

Introduction to Julia#

Course Description#

Welcome to the Introduction to Julia course! This course has been created to give you an idea of Julia’s particular language features. It assumes you are already comfortable with the basics of programming, allowing for more detailed and interesting topics to be discussed. To be able to best engage with this course, it is therefore recommended that you are familiar with the content in both “Introduction to Python” and “Python for Data Analysis”.

Course Objectives#

  • Understand Julia’s high-level and high-performance goals, including multiple dispatch.

  • Learn to create and manipulate one-dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays using various functions and comprehensions.

  • Use conditional statements and loops (for and while) to control the flow of programs.

  • Create functions with different parameter types and return values, including exploring multiple dispatch and lambda functions.

  • Perform input and output operations, including reading from and writing to various file types such as text, CSV, Excel, and JSON.

Pre-requisite Knowledge#

Attendees of the workshop should already be familiar with a programming language such as Python and should have already installed and been able to run an example of a Julia code snippet.

Signup#

To check for upcoming course dates and to register, please visit the Workshop Schedule and Signup page available here.

Installation Guide#

All CfRR courses require attendees to use their own computer/laptop to follow workshop activities and take effective notes.

Developers#

This course was developed by Liam Berrisford.

License Info#

Instructional Material

The instructional material in this course is copyright © 2024 University of Exeter and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Instructional material consists of material that is contained within the “individual_modules/introduction_to_hpc” folders in this repository, with the exception of code snippets and example programs found in files within these folders. Such code snippets and example programs are considered software for the purposes of this licence.

Software

Except where otherwise noted, software provided in this repository is made available under the MIT licence (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

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