Book Review: Practical Julia
a year ago
- #Julia
- #Scientific Computing
- #Programming
- The book 'Practical Julia' by Lee Phillips is an introduction to the Julia programming language, specifically aimed at scientists rather than programmers.
- It covers Julia's installation, REPL, and modern features like Unicode support and emoji variable names.
- The book provides a detailed introduction to Julia's numeric types, arrays, strings, and functions, with a focus on scientific computing.
- It includes chapters on modules, packages, plotting, and data visualization, showcasing Julia's versatility in handling scientific data.
- The second part of the book applies Julia to real-world scientific problems, including physics, biology, and machine learning.
- Examples demonstrate Julia's capabilities in data manipulation and visualization, using packages like DataFrames and Plots.
- The book is noted for its practical approach, though some language features like multiple dispatch are deferred to later chapters.
- Critiques include minor complaints about example choices and the book's price, which may be a barrier for some readers.