Best all-purpose text or website for learning Julia?

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Thanks @frylock – Just FYI the link for Learn Julia the Hard Way was a 404 for me. I found this but it doesn’t appear to be the original.

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Just now tried the link and it seems to be up (again)?

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Yeah, it works now. Weird. Thanks.

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As of now, it doesn’t work, at leat for me (France)

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I’m sorry that site is causing folks problems - perhaps it is some regional thing. I get it two hops away, and it is active now:

PS C:\Users\frylock\Desktop> tracert scls.gitbooks.io

Tracing route to scls.gitbooks.io [104.18.42.112]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     5 ms     1 ms     1 ms  usage.lan [192.168.10.1]
  2    39 ms    38 ms    45 ms  104.18.42.112

Trace complete.
PS C:\Users\frylock\Desktop> nslookup scls.gitbooks.io
Server:  usage.lan
Address:  192.168.10.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    scls.gitbooks.io
Addresses:  172.64.145.144
          104.18.42.112

PS C:\Users\frylock\Desktop> ping 104.18.42.112

Pinging 104.18.42.112 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 104.18.42.112: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=64
Reply from 104.18.42.112: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=64
Reply from 104.18.42.112: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 104.18.42.112:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 62ms, Average = 51ms
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I read the self published earlier edition of this book and found it to be the best book I’ve ever read to learn a programming language (and I learned over 25 in the course of my life)

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Your name sounds French. If you read French, this book might interest you: https://books.google.be/books/about/Introduction_à_Julia.html?id=kbEFzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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If you’re coming from R and are a fan of R for Data Science, then I’d love to put in a plug for our Tidier package, which re-implements many of the tidyverse R packages in Julia.

https://github.com/TidierOrg/Tidier.jl

We have fairly good documentation for the packages that walks through examples of the core functionality but are continuing to work on documentation and in the early stages of planning an open-source book.

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