Re: [julia-users] Favorite intro tutorials?

2015-12-16 Thread Daniel Arndt
I agree that the "Learn Julia in Y minutes" was very helpful just as a starting point, but after that I learned by reading the manuals and source code, mostly. Unfortunately, "Learn Julia in Y minutes" hasn't been updated to Julia 0.4 yet. On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:16:08 UTC-4, jock@g

Re: [julia-users] Favorite intro tutorials?

2015-12-15 Thread jock . lawrie
1. Learn the basics of syntax quickly in 10 minutes . 2. Depending on your reason for learning Julia, one of: a) Translate an existing script into Julia. Translating Python scripts is particularly instructive because the syntax is similar. b) Wri

Re: [julia-users] Favorite intro tutorials?

2015-12-15 Thread Tamas Papp
1. reading through the manual, which I am doing again since the language had some subtle changes compared to 0.3 and the manual also improved, 2. working through the source code of some core packages, to learn idiomatic solutions. Eg at the moment I am studying Distributions.jl, learned a lot abou

[julia-users] Favorite intro tutorials?

2015-12-14 Thread Spencer Russell
What introductory tutorials or resources are people liking these days? I'm particularly interested in people who have just learned Julia recently, but obviously interested to hear from anyone. What was most helpful for you? Sometimes I get questions from friends or colleagues who are interested in