Introduction to Julia Programming: Machine-Learning Models and AI

Variables and Types in Julia

• Integers
  • No overflow checking
• Floats
• Strings
  • Characters versus strings
  • Strings are assumed to be UTF-8
  • print
  • println
  • formatted printing
• Dates

Using Latex Symbols

Best Practices for Datatypes

Best practice:

• Ensure the compiler can correctly deduce type

Hands-On Exercise 2.1

• Julia DataFrames
• Interoperating with Pandas DataFrames

Julia Operators and Functions

Functions and operators

• pipe operator
• Function composition
• Tuple arguments are immutable
• Array arguments are mutable
• Variable number of arguments
• Broadcasting a function
• Anonymous functions

Contents - Multiple Dispatch

Multiple Dispatch

• Function Signatures

Hands-On Exercise 2.2

• Julia Macros

Hands-On Exercise 2.3

Arrays

• Julia matrices are in column-major order
• Linear and Cartesian indexes
• EachIndex operator
• Arrays with custom indices

Hands-On Exercise 3.1

• Applications of Matrices
• Special Array and Matrix types
• Introduction to Matrices in Artificial Intelligence

Hands-On Exercise 3.2

• Introductory numerical analysis
• Matrices – Norms and Conditioning
• Differential Equations

Hands-On Exercise 3.3

FileIO Package

Standard File Types

Implementing Loaders and Saves

Hands-On Exercise 4.1

• Graphics Output
• Plotting from the Julia REPL
• Plotting in Julia Notebooks

Hands-On Exercise 4.2

Statistical modeling

Machine Learning

Hands-On Exercise 5.1

Neural Network Basics in Julia

Hands-On Exercise 6.1

Advanced Neural Network Libraries in Julia

Performance Tuning for Neural Networks

Quantization of Neural Networks

Hands-On Exercise 6.2

The Julia Debugger

High-Performance Julia

Principles of high-performance programming

Profiling Julia code

Hands-On Exercise 7.1

• Parallel Processing
• Multithreading
• Multiprocessing
• Distributed processing

Hands-On Exercise 7.2

Julia with TensorFlow and PyTorch

ONNX

Creating a computer vision system

Picking a model from the “zoo”

ResNet

Hands-On Exercise 8.1