Summary
This chapter introduced you to Julia, and how to download it, install it, and build it from the source. We saw that the language is elegant, concise, and powerful, and introduced some simple Julia coding examples.
The next four chapters will discuss the features of Julia in more depth.
We looked at interacting with Julia via the command line (REPL) in order to use a random walk method to evaluate the price of an Asian option. Also, we discussed the use of the VS Code editor and two IDEs, IJulia and Pluto, as an alternative to the REPL.
Additionally, we reviewed the built-in package manager, how to add, update and remove modules, and then demonstrated the use of two graphics packages to display typical trajectories of the Asian option calculation. In later chapters, we will look at various other approaches in order to create display graphics and quality visualizations.
In the next chapter, we will begin our detailed look at coding in Julia by discussing its primitive...
