Julia Tutorial

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Julia claims JIT speed (LLVM) and multiple dispatch and demonstrates concrete tools: Pkg.add/clone, calling C and Python (pycall), Plots with backends like Plotly and Matplotlib, and a GitHub notebook (https://github.com/cc7768/PyDataDC_julia). Examples build a bisection routine, simulate two laws of motion and make a bifurcation animation that runs. Performance tests show type instability inflates allocations (about 30 million allocations, ~457 MB) and slows code roughly 3× slower; column‑major memory access also creates ~3× differences.

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1. 0:00Julia tutorial intro
2. 1:49What is Julia
3. 6:08Hello world in Julia
4. 7:12Bisection algorithm
5. 15:41Julia syntax basics
6. 20:21Array ops & broadcasting
7. 24:23Calling C/Fortran
8. 25:26Julia type system
9. 28:40Multiple dispatch
10. 32:11Type parameters
11. 41:24Interoperability with Python
12. 43:17Custom types & methods
13. 49:00Package manager
14. 51:47ForwardDiff package
15. 53:13Plotting packages
16. 58:18Performance tips
17. 1:00:51Type stability
18. 1:04:28Memory storage
19. 1:06:15Q&A

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