Per Rutquist

University of Freiburg, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)

Wednesday, January 09, 2019, 10:30 - Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 11:30

Room 01-012, building 102 or room 01-014, building 103

An introduction to the Julia programming language; The mini-course consists of four one-hour lectures (before lunch) plus exercises (after lunch).

Lecture 1: Hello, World!
Jan 9, 10:30, room 01-012, building 102 (video, slides pdf)

• Variables and types
• Control flow (if, for, while, ...)
• Functions, methods and dispatch
• Dot-broadcast notation
• Tips and tricks (avoiding common mistakes)
• Getting help
• Exercise 1

Lecture 2: Advanced Julia
Jan 16, 10:30, room 01-014, building 103 (video, slides pdf, IJulia-notebook)

• Discussion of exercise 1
• Closures
• Parametric types
• Expressions and interpolation
• Macros
• Generated functions
• Exercise 2

Lecture 3: Writing a Package
Jan 23, 10:30, room 01-012, building 102 (video, slides pdf, IJulia-notebook)

• Discussion of exercise 2
• The structure of a Julia package
• Development and Testing
• Coding style
• Dependencies
• Interfacing with C 
• Exercise 3

Lecture 4: Coding for performance
Jan 30, 10:30, room 01-014, building 103 (livestream, IJulia-notebook)

• Discussion of exercise 3
• What makes Julia fast?
• How to write fast code
• Benchmarking and profiling
• A few useful packages
• GPU programming (very briefly)