I think I’m going to like Julia it’s VERY much like Python.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Julia
Discovered and installed the programming language Julia. It’s been around for a few years but just attained version 1.0 status less than a month ago. Also wrote my 1st simple program to get a feel for the language.
Docker
Created my 1st docker container running a small python program I wrote called slice.py. The dockerfile…contained… FROM python:2.7 RUN mkdir /root/pythonlib/ COPY slice.py /root/pythonlib/myapp.py CMD [“python”, “/root/pythonlib/myapp.py”] The container is created from the above by… docker build -t bill-py . It is the run like so… docker run bill-py
More Julia/VS Code
Really enjoying Julia. Although geared towards scientific, data science and numerical computing, it’s also, I’ve read, a great general purpose language. I’m not a data scientist so my intent lies more in line with general programming. Doing things I might have used Python for. Thing’s I like! Very Python like!!! Integrates very well with a …
Docker
Installed docker using most recent Youtube Video for Ubuntu 16.4, on which Linux Mint 18.3 is based. Had some problems because of differences between Ubuntu & Linux Mint.