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Pawel Pralat Jan 12, 2019

I am a research scientist (professor of mathematics) with past experience in using C/C++ (for heavy number crunching) and Maple (for everything else).After studying the recipes in the book, I now see that Julia is a great language that combines easy code (such as Maple or Python) and speed of C. For other researchers I would especially recommend Chapter 4: “Numerical Computing with Julia”, where one can learn how to write high-performance Julia code. Also Chapter 1: “Installing and Setting Up Julia” saved me a lot of time, as usually starting using a new computational environment requires to learn a lot of small details, which are nicely laid out in the book. Julia is famous for its ease to scale out the computations for many CPU cores and nodes. The recipes in the Chapter 10, "Distributed Computing", turned to be great companion to the existing Julia documentation. To book presents Julia high performance computing from a very practical perspective and made it much easier to scale out scientific computations.

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General Malfunction Jan 12, 2019

I have been developing large scale simulation models for many years now, mostly in Java. Recently I decided to check out Julia in this area. This book caught my attention, because it featured recipes directly from my field of interest such as Monte Carlo simulation or modeling queuing systems. The biggest benefit from reading it was understanding how to implement numerical computing routines efficiently in Julia (which is a pain in Java). Also the last chapter on distributed computing was very valuable, as I have found that with the functionalities shipped with the language I am was scale my simulations very easily. I think that the book is relatively well written, however, I would say that beginners might find it challenging, as it assumes that the reader has some basic knowledge of Julia and computing principles in general.

DrJimbo Dec 17, 2018

I was somewhat optimistic that this publication would be worthwhile insofar as one of the authors is a very frequent and helpful contributor to Julia support on StackOverflow. Regrettably this was not to be.For example, Chapter 1 provides a fairly thorough overview of Julia program installation along with various IDE's for Windows and Linux Ubuntu - iOS/mac systems are not even referenced! Now this is probably due to the authors residing in Poland where iOS/mac systems are less prevalent, but this publication is being promoted in the U.S. where iOS/mac systems are very prevalent especially in technical computing environments.Let's consider Chapter 2 - Data Structures and AlgorithmsConsider the first example - Finding the index of a random minimum element in an array. The authors launch right into the creation of functions which employ arrays without bothering to discuss the nature of function definitions or arrays. Moreover the second function in the section is relatively complex and involves Julia programming structures previously unmentioned, let alone discussed in detail until much later in the book. Later in Chapter #2 there is a far more complex set of functions to optimize matrix multiplication, perhaps valuable in numerical programming contexts but not necessarily a cookbook example of substantial urgency, especially so early in the volume.Chapter 5 - Variables, Types and Function. Put to the side for the moment that Chapters 2 through 4 have been making extensive use of these three aspects of Julia programming so this chapter arrives a bit late in the game. To begin the discussion of types Julia structures are used - would you like see where structures are thoroughly reviewed? Forget about looking at the Index in the back of the book - "Sudoku" is there, but no "struct". In short, you are left to understand the nature of structures while in the midst of a section on types and type hierarchy.While not altogether unworthy this volume betrays an all too frequent issue with Packt publications - no responsible editorial review. By way of comparison, O'Reilly technical publications, but particularly their "Cookbooks", are wonderfully organized and employ examples which are widely relevant and progress methodically from the simple to the more complex.Given the freely available Julia programing resources this volume is to my mind of tertiary value.

Marcello Vitaletti Dec 24, 2019

Many math expressions are unreadable in the Kindle edition

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