Getting Started with Julia (for Experienced Programmers)

In Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, this was MIT's 18.337J/6.338J: Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning course. Now these lectures and notes serve as a standalone book resource.

Chris Rackauckas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Additional information on these topics can be found at:

[chadagreene]

0:36 Installing Julia
2:40 Setting up an IDE (Atom or VS Code)
9:35 Activate environments
12:55 First .jl script
13:45 Inline help
18:40 PkgTemplates
23:10 Unicode variables and operators
24:30 import, export, and using
26:20 Documentation and further resources

[chadagreene]

This is absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[LrsTrysToMakeTut]

Haha why is there a dislike on the vs code video?

[siyaram]

How is julia for making highly concurrent web apps?

[Klayperson]

> Casually Explained in feed
> "Why bird nests aren't covered in poop" in feed

bröther

[cynthialiu]

Followed the instructions here, but the test code crashes on "using Demo1." I tried doing the same procedure but using a completely different package name (not the same one as the environment), and also tried restarting my Julia and reactivating the environment, but it wasn't fixed. The error is "ERROR: importing <module name> into Main conflicts with an existing identifier." Anyone know how to fix this?

[SK-pmvq]

I have a suggestion whenever you demo don't do a demo with theme black theme, it becomes hard to read the screen. Use a lighter theme.

[Cons-Cat]

Can you explain to me why an "experienced programmer" needs to be baby walked through setting up an editor? I am "experienced" enough to know what editors I actually like using (for sure not Atom or VS Code lol) and how to figure out how to use them for any programming language I want.