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Introduction to Computer Programming in Julia

About

This repository contains the learning material for an introdcutory course to computer programming using the Julia programming language. This course consists of 6 chapters, the material for which is provided in the folders above.

The material covered in each chapter is supported by a tutorial julia notebook file (Pluto.jl), Week X.jl. A homework assignment sheet for independent practice is also included.

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Julia

   • Why learn Julia?
   • The Julia REPL
   • Installing packages
   • Pluto

2. File Format, Data Types, Objects, Plotting

   • Julia file format
   • Data type fundamentals
   • Collections
   • Plotting 101

3. Control Flow

   • For loops, While loops and the Bang(!) operator
   • Conditional (if-else) statements
   • Try-catch statements
   • User input

4. Functions and Object-Oriented Programming

   • What is a function?
   • Function arguments
   • What is a composite type (Struct)?
   • Struct methods

5. Maths in Julia

   • Relationship to MatLab & NumPy
   • Important maths packages
   • Statistics 101
   • Vector/Matrix operations

6. DataFrames.jl

   • Relationship to Pandas & R
   • DataFrames 101
   • Data visualisation

License and Terms of Use

This course material is the copyright property of Matthew Flood.
Reuse of this material without permission is prohibited.