This repository contains code presented at the Pittsburgh Code and Supply meetup Introduction to the Julia Programming Language on January 12th, 2015. The presentation was given as an interactive tutorial, where everyone was encouraged to follow along in IJulia notebooks. In two sections we first covered the basic syntax and semantics of the Julia language and second worked through an example problem.
Included in the IntroToJulia directory of this repository are two
versions of two files. BasicJulia.ipynb, BasicJulia.jl,
FindingPi.ipynb, FindingPi.jl. These files are described below.
BasicJulia.ipynb is the IJulia notebook we created during the presentation, with some additional links to documentation. BasicJulia.jl contains just the source code with none of the notebook metadata.
We covered the basic syntax of the following, with a few simple examples for each:
- Basic Types
- Variables
- Flow Control
- Functions
The contents of this notebook can also be viewed (but not interacted with) without any need to download or install Julia, by going to its nbviewer page, here.
After introducing the basic syntax of Julia, we worked through a guided example of doing a numeric simulation in Julia. The example was to estimate the value of Pi, using a method derived from the ratio of a circle's area to the area of it's circumscribed square. We wrote this code in modules, testing our functions as we went. We also plotted the accuracy of our recommendations using the Gadfly plotting library.
The FindingPi.ipynb is an IJulia notebook very similar to the one we created during the presentation. It includes a fair amount of explanatory text, covering both the problem of estimating pi, and the organization of the code. The FindingPi.jl file contains just the source code with little explanatory comments and none of the notebook metadata.
Working through this example, we introduced the following Julia concepts:
- User Defined Types
- Multiple Dispatch
- Modules and Imports
- Testing
- External Packages
- Graphing
- Performance of nested loops.
The contents of this notebook can also be viewed (but not interacted with) without any need to download or install Julia, by going to its nbviewer page, here.
Copyright © 2015 Erik Swanson [email protected] This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.