Getting Started with Julia¶

This first part of the course provides a relatively fast-paced introduction to enough of the Julia programming language to understand the lectures.

Lectures¶

• Setting up Your Julia Environment
  • Overview
  • A Note on Jupyter
  • Desktop Installation of Julia and Jupyter
  • Using Julia on the Web
  • Installing Packages
• Interacting with Julia
  • Overview
  • Using Jupyter
  • Using the REPL
  • (Optional) Adding Jupyter to the Path
• Introductory Examples
  • Overview
  • Example: Plotting a White Noise Process
  • Example: Variations on Fixed Points
  • Exercises
  • Solutions
• Julia Essentials
  • Overview
  • Common Data Types
  • Iterating
  • Comparisons and Logical Operators
  • User-Defined Functions
  • Broadcasting
  • Scoping and Closures
  • Exercises
  • Solutions
• Arrays, Tuples, Ranges, and Other Fundamental Types
  • Overview
  • Array Basics
  • Operations on Arrays
  • Ranges
  • Tuples and Named Tuples
  • Nothing, Missing, and Unions
  • Exercises
  • Solutions
• Introduction to Types and Generic Programming
  • Overview
  • Finding and Interpreting Types
  • The Type Hierarchy
  • Deducing and Declaring Types
  • Creating New Types
  • Introduction to Multiple Dispatch
  • Exercises