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## Overview

This is the official documentation for the Julia programming language. It is generally intended to be read in the order below, but can for the most part be sensibly read out of order. The manual is not complete yet, but the sections that do exist should give a fair idea of the possibilities of the Julia language.

## Contents

0. Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. Major Differences from Matlab
3. Numeric Primitives and Literals
   • Integer Literals
   • Floating Point Literals
   • Numeric Literal Coefficients
     • Syntax Conflicts
4. Mathematical Operations
   • Arithmetic and Bitwise Operators
   • Numeric Comparisons
   • Mathematical Functions
5. Complex and Rational Numbers
   • Complex Numbers
   • Rational Numbers
6. Strings
   • Characters
   • String Basics
   • Unicode & UTF-8
   • Interpolation
   • Common Operations
   • Non-Standard String Literals
     • Byte Array Literals
   • Regular Expressions
7. Functions
   • The "return" Keyword
   • Operators Are Functions
   • Anonymous Functions
   • Multiple Return Values
   • Varargs Functions
   • Further Reading
8. Control Flow
   • Compound Expressions
   • Conditional Evaluation
   • Short-Circuit Evaluation
   • Repeated Evaluation: Loops
   • Exception Handling
   • Tasks (aka Coroutines)
9. Variables and Scoping
10. Types
    • Abstract Types
    • Bits Types
    • Composite Types
    • Type Unions
    • Tuple Types
    • Parametric Types
    • Type Aliases
    • Operations on Types
11. Methods
    • Defining Methods
    • Method Ambiguities
    • Dispatch on Abstract Types
12. Constructors
13. Conversion and Promotion
14. Arrays
15. Running External Programs
    • Interpolation
    • Quoting
    • Pipelines
16. Parallel Computing
    • Parallel map and loops
    • Distributed arrays
    • Adding processors
    • Working with RemoteRef and GlobalObject
17. Metaprogramming
    • Expressions and Eval
    • Macros
18. Calling C Code
19. Standard Library Reference

## Resources

• Homepage: http://julialang.org
• Source code: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
• Documentation: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/wiki
• Discussion: julia-math@googlegroups.com

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