# Any good books on julia?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-good-books-on-julia/111456
**Category:** General Usage
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**Created:** [March 11, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-good-books-on-julia/111456 "2024-03-11T11:45:01Z")
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### Author: ![jiang\_ming\_zhang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jiang_ming_zhang/32/204063_2.png) [@jiang\_ming\_zhang](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jiang_ming_zhang)
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I am from matlab and find julia a very difficult language. Is there any good book introducing julia for scientific computing?

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-good-books-on-julia/111456/2 "2024-03-11T11:52:13Z")

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Practical Julia

> **[Practical Julia](https://lee-phillips.org/juliabook/)**

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
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Just look at [Get started with Julia](https://julialang.org/learning/) They present 8 books…

You need to scroll down a bit, though…

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### Author: ![h.smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/h.smith/32/32263_2.png) [@h.smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/h.smith)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-good-books-on-julia/111456/4 "2024-03-11T17:53:41Z")

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I have found “Algorithms with JULIA” by Clemens Heitzinger very helpful. (Springer 2022) It is aimed at scientific programming but I think it also gives good clear pictures of how Julia really works… HTH

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### Author: ![b-lukaszuk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/b-lukaszuk/32/207730_2.png) [@b-lukaszuk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/b-lukaszuk)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-good-books-on-julia/111456/5 "2024-03-14T09:55:11Z")

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Not sure if it is good (I don’t want to toot my own horn), but recently I wrote a book (desktop publishing) [Romeo and Julia, where Romeo is Basic Statistics](https://b-lukaszuk.github.io/RJ_BS_eng/). You may give it a try.

It is listed at [julialang.org](https://julialang.org/learning/books/) and is available freely under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.