Introduction to Julia Programming Certificate for Nelisiwe Mtshali
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Certificate ID:
726527
Authentication Code:
b6b68
Certified Person Name:
Nelisiwe Mtshali
Trainer Name:
Anyway Chare
Duration Days:
4
Duration Hours:
28
Course Name:
Introduction to Julia Programming
Course Date:
11 July 2023 09:00 to 14 July 2023 16:00
Course Outline:
Introduction
- What kind of programming language is Julia?
- How was Julia created, when, and by whom?
- Julia resources
Development Environment
- Introduction to 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
- Calling and declaring 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
Metaprogamming
- Symbols
- Eval
- Expressions
- Interpolation
- Evaluation
- Calling 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