Julia: Introductory material

This is a collection of online references pointing at introductory material for the Julia language.If you look for further online resources, please ensure that they are for Julia 1.0 and newer. This is best achieved by looking for material not older than 2019.

Installation

Install the latest stable version via the Julia Homepage. Julia devs recommend not to use the Julia versions provided from other sources (like Homebrew, various Linux package managers). juliaup provides another flexible way to install Julia and to switch between versions.

Learning

Resources curated by the Julia development team.

• Documentation

  • Getting started

  • Noteworthy differences from Matlab, R, Python, C/C++

• Curated learning resources

• Julia is evolving. New versions in the 1.x range introduce many important additions and non-breaking changes. Many important Julia packages require at least the current long term service (LTS) version 1.6.

  • Julia version highlights: 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 1.9

  • Why Julia 2.0 Isn’t Coming Anytime Soon

More learning resources

• Julia for Talented Amateurs: Actively maintained collection of video tutorials for many different aspects of Julia

• WikiBook

• The book Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe has a Julia companion

• QuantEcon tutorial with focus on economics and statistics

• Cheat Sheet

• Matlab-Julia-Python cheat sheet

• Julia as a second language by Erik Engheim

Introductory material from my TU Berlin courses and other talks (videos + Pluto notebooks)

• The Julia programming language - an overview. Talk at Leibniz MMS Days 2022.

• Julia+Pluto installation (Winter 21/22)

• First contact: Pluto (Winter 21/22)

• First contact: Julia (Winter 21/22)

• Julia type system (Winter 21/22)

• JIT compilation and performance (Winter 21/22)

• Julia interoperabillity (Winter 21/22)

• Stack, heap, allocations (Winter 21/22)

• Reproducibility infrastructure of the Julia language (Winter 22/23)

• Plotting in Julia (Winter 22/23)

Editing

• Visual Studio Code extension

• Pluto notebooks; How to install Julia and Pluto: MIT course video

• Emacs support

Update history

• 2023-10-17: Julia as a second language, semester info

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