Thanks a million Tamas. These are very helpful pointers indeed. Arin
On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 22:27:16 UTC+12, Tamas Papp wrote: > > Hi Arin, > > I am planning something similar in the near future and have been > thinking about this too. Maybe you could organize your discussion around > the following three topics: > > 1. "things that work as expected" > > Language constructs like numbers, arrays, control flow etc, that are > very similar to other languages. No surprises there, emphasize that > transitioning to Julia is easy from Algol-like languages. > > 2. "things that improve on other languages" > > Multimethods, the type system; with concrete examples. Probably macros > are too much when people first see the language. > > 3. "work in progress" > > Your audience will probably care about dataframes and > plotting. Emphasize that things are in flux, but more or less usable. > > Probably coding through a small but self-contained example (an > epidemiology simulation, with plots at the end?) could be useful. > > IMO 4 hours is the maximum that most people can bear with a meaningful > level of attention, 3 is better. > > Best, > > Tamas > > > On Wed, Sep 09 2015, Arin Basu <arin...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am planning to offer a workshop (about 3 hours length, but can be > longer, > > up to five hours) introducing Julia language to a group of statisticians > > and advanced students (biostatistics and epidemiology focus). My > audience > > is statisticians who may be familiar with Python, C, R, SAS, SPSS. Some > may > > or may not be, I do not know at this stage, but assume they are not > > familiar with Julia. I'd greatly appreciate if you can kindly suggest a > > list of topics that I shall I include. This is going to be an > introductory > > workshop. Can you please share a few sample introductory workshop topic > > lists? > > > > Best, > > Arin Basu >
