Lecture 2 - Types and Functions

Essential Skills For Computational Biology

2020-06-08

Kevin Bonham, PhD

A program is data and operations on data

chromosomes = 23 # this is data

function diploid(n)
    return n * 2 # this is an operation
end

diploid (generic function with 1 method)

diploid(chromosomes) # this is a program

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How to run a julia program

• From the REPL
• From a script (Live demo)
• From a file inside VS Code (Live demo)

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