Hi, I’m new to the Julia language but I have some very modest background in Python and R. I’ve been learning what I can of Julia from Exercism.org and from taking some old R projects and “translating” them to Julia. Both have been useful and have helped me realize I want to learn more. What’s your …

Slightly off topic, cause this is not about learning Julia per se. Instead, this is about making your Julia journey easier with good coding practices and useful development tools: https://modernjuliaworkflows.github.io/

The julialang homepage has a great list of resources. I like the JuliaAcademy ones, but there are also a lot of tutorials on the YouTube channel (use link above). If you want to get straight into “doing stuff” I really like MIT’s computational thinking course . It’s very science focused, but still te…

All of this looks very useful! Thanks, and please keep recommending. It’s nice to see that the Julia community is just as welcoming as I’d heard it was. :grinning:

This is a short workshop from Doug Bates which I found useful. If you’re familiar with arrow, quarto, and duckdb they can easily be used the same way in Julia as in R. https://crsl4.github.io/julia-workshop/

I don’t hear it much at all here, but in many languages I’m used to hearing hate for the documentation - but Julia’s documentation is pretty great, IMO. I’d say I spent most of my time reading and re-reading it. When I was really new, I found this lecture by Stefan Karpinski really motivating: Jul…

Since you mentioned data science, check our recent book: [image] [NEW BOOK] Geospatial Data Science with Julia Geo [image] The book will be published soon, and will contain practical applications of the framework we built over the years. If you would like to see an appli…

Mine, with sone quizzes (for the first part) and exercises (second part): Introduction to Scientific Programming and Machine Learning with Julia

Also coming from R. I bounced around between a few of those already listed. I don’t entirely know why, but I found Julia as a Second Language to be the particularly helpful. [image] Julia as a Second Language Learn the awesome Julia programming language by building fun projects like a r…

I don’t know if you like learning from videos but Doggo dot jl is what got me started in Julia. Their intro to Julia series helped me feel much more comfortable with types, multiple dispatch, and other things that are special about Julia. They also have series of dives into different domains where J…

I feel that I can recommend Practical Julia based on your background description, a recent release aimed at working scientists and mathematicians: [image] Practical Julia Use Julia as a research tool and solve real-world problems in this practical, hands-on intro to the language. …

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Since you mentioned data science, check our recent book:

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