Introduction to Julia Programming Training Course

Introduction

• Understanding what kind of programming language Julia is.
• The history of Julia: its creation, timeline, and creators.
• Overview of Julia resources.

Development Environment

• Introduction to the cloud-based development environment.
• Working with the Terminal.
• Using the REPL.
• Loading and installing packages.
• Integrated Development Environments (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 lambda expressions.
• Control flow, exception handling, and error management.

Scoping

• Function scopes.
• Global and local scoping rules.
• Blocks.
• begin/end blocks.
• let/end blocks.
• Modules.
• Data Structures.
• Tuples.
• Dictionaries.
• Arrays.
• Vectors.
• Matrices & Linear Algebra.
• Multidimensional arrays.
• Dot notation (within functions).
• Handling 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.

Metaprogramming

• Symbols.
• Evaluation (eval).
• Expressions.
• Interpolation.
• Evaluation processes.
• Calling and building macros.
• Code generation.
• @generated functions.

Local Concurrency and Parallelism

• SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data).
• Parallelism.
• Tasks & Channels.
• Asynchronous programming.
• Multithreading.
• Performance optimization.

Tooling

• Unit testing.
• Performance benchmarking.
• Profiling.
• Logging.
• Debugging: understanding stack traces.

I/O

• Reading and writing text and binary files.
• Delimited files.
• Memory-mapped files.
• Downloading files.