Type-Checking with Julia

Did some User-Defined Types with Julia

• It was for the optional / Honors portion of the course. So far, only myself and one other person have submitted. Then again, I am a week ahead :D

• I watched the lesson for this week about four times. I really, really, really wanted to understand the types of Julia, particularly how Complex User-Defined Parametrized Types work in Julia. This is the core of Julia’s power.

We Created a User-Defined Type with a specific type

Instantiation

• We then instantiated the type. Types are mutable unless you say they are immutable, by replacing type with immutable.
• I defined a new type called MyCube of type T.

Instances

• I then created two instances of the type MyCube

This was challenging

• A bit new for me. Julia is tricky about external constructors and can throw a conversion type error if you don’t define it properly. This actually took a while for me.

• Here I am defining a volume-method as a value defined by multiplying each field in type MyCube. ie h x w x l.

• I then took this method and found the log

Overloading

• Then I overloaded the methods using the Base + function. This reminded me a lot of function template overloading in C++

Whew!

I’m skipping along

• I have one more general assignment to finish up for Week 3 and then I do Week 4 assignments. I’m starting Week 4 lessons today to get a head-start.
• From Sunday, I do my Nanodegree Assignments involving SQL and Python.