The Julia Programming Language
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-  **Still highly imcomplete**
-  High-level programming language for future astronomer….maybe?

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Basic Information
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-  `The JuliaLab@MIT <https://julia.mit.edu/>`__
-  `The Julia Programming Language <https://julialang.org/>`__

   -  Julia was designed from the beginning for high performance.
   -  The source code can be found on
      `Github <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia>`__

-  `Julia 1.1 Documentation <https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/>`__
-  `Julia Observer <https://juliaobserver.com/packages>`__

   -  Good place to search for useful tools.

-  `Julia.jl - Curated decibans of Julia programming
   language <https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl>`__

   -  Check out the
      `Space-Science.md <https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/blob/master/Space-Science.md>`__
      for astro-related packages.

Distributions
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-  `JuliaPro - A Julia distribution crafted for your
   success <https://juliacomputing.com/products/juliapro.html>`__

Learning Materials
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-  `Learn Julia the hard
   way! <https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/learn-julia-the-hard-way>`__

   -  GitBook for learning Julia language.

-  `Julia Cheat
   Sheet <https://github.com/JuliaDocs/Julia-Cheat-Sheet>`__

   -  The `one page
      version <https://juliadocs.github.io/Julia-Cheat-Sheet/>`__

-  `JuliaZH.jl -
   Julia语言中文文档 <https://github.com/JuliaCN/JuliaZH.jl>`__

Useful Packages
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Basic
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-  `DataFrames.jl - In-memory tabular data in
   Julia <https://github.com/JuliaData/DataFrames.jl>`__

   -  Tools for working with tabular data in Julia.

-  `CSV.jl - Utility library for working with CSV and other delimited
   files in the Julia programming
   language <https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl>`__

   -  A fast, flexible delimited file reader/writer for Julia.

-  `Genie.jl - The highly productive Julia web
   framework <https://github.com/GenieFramework/Genie.jl>`__

   -  Genie is a full-stack MVC web framework that provides a
      streamlined and efficient workflow for developing modern web
      applications.

Visualization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `Plots.jl - Powerful convenience for Julia visualizations and data
   analysis <https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl>`__

   -  Documents can be found
      `here <http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/>`__

-  `Gadfly.jl - Crafty statistical graphics for
   Julia <https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl>`__

   -  Gadfly is a plotting and data visualization system written in
      Julia.

Optimization
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-  `Optim.jl - Optimization functions for
   Julia <https://github.com/JuliaNLSolvers/Optim.jl>`__

   -  Optim.jl is a package for univariate and multivariate optimization
      of functions.

-  `LsqFit.jl - Simple curve fitting in
   Julia <https://github.com/JuliaNLSolvers/LsqFit.jl>`__

   -  The LsqFit package is a small library that provides basic
      least-squares fitting in pure Julia under an MIT license.

Statistics
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-  `Turing.jl - The Turing language for probabilistic
   programming <https://github.com/TuringLang/Turing.jl>`__

   -  Turing allows the user to write models in standard Julia syntax,
      and provide a wide range of sampling-based inference methods for
      solving problems across probabilistic machine learning, Bayesian
      statistics and data science etc.

Machine Learning
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-  `Flux.jl - the ML library that doesn’t make you
   tensor <https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl>`__

   -  Flux is an elegant approach to machine learning. It’s a 100%
      pure-Julia stack, and provides lightweight abstractions on top of
      Julia’s native GPU and AD support.

-  `knet.jl - Koç University deep learning
   framework <https://github.com/denizyuret/Knet.jl>`__

   -  Knet (pronounced “kay-net”) is the Koç University deep learning
      framework implemented in Julia by Deniz Yuret and collaborators