Hi, I gave a 4-hour Julia tutorial at the SciPy 2014 meeting in Austin a couple of days ago.
The video is now available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkgEddb4-A The IJulia notebooks are available at https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia Due to the nature of the audience, the tutorial was aimed at people with experience of scientific Python, so it skates over those things that are similar to Python. But it tried to cover all the basics of the Julia syntax, and a touch of internals, and why Julia is interesting for that audience. I would like to develop this first attempt into a basic interactive Julia tutorial, which I feel has been rather missing until now. (Douglas Bates has a recent one aimed at a different community.) I do feel that the notebook format is the right fit for these kinds of tutorials. Incidentally, Fernando Pérez announced at the SciPy meeting that the IPython Notebook interface will be renamed to Jupyter to emphasise language agnosticism; the "Ju" comes from Julia ;) So we should start calling them Jupyter notebooks, instead of IPython or IJulia I would be very happy to receive pull requests and/or to separate this out into a separate repo if people would like to do some kind of crowd development. Thanks to Daniel Jones for pointing out that the tutorial was now online. David.
