I think it would be good to start a repository of small examples that highlight Julia’s strengths, which could be pulled for use in outreach talks or browsed online. For example, in my Why Julia? talk I use an example from @andreasnoack of linear algebra over a Galois field. It illustrates how to d…

I think this is a great idea. Personally I like the idea of a few Literate.jl files in a Github repo that can generate notebooks or source files as desired. That way everything plays nicely with git.

This is great! I don’t see why one should use Literate instead of a notebook directly though… The added complexity does not really offer something to new users which are totally clueless about what Literate.jl does. In my eyes the best approach is a big README with a linked table of contents, then …

[image] Datseris: I would very much like to contribute to this, but at the moment Jupyter doesn’t run on Windows with julia 1.0, so I’ll be late to the party… That’s one reason to use Literate :slight_smile:

I’d say that a plain .jl file, e.g., Literate, is best simply because of the issue you mentioned. I can open a .jl with any text editor and see what is going on. That said, I’d probably have a folder of pre-generated notebooks available for new users.

I forfeit. I have to admit you are all right and I was wrong. Literate seems like the way to go! Now, I’ve recently seen this thread: Benchmarking Julia for common scientific programming tasks and I think when someone creates the repository discussed here, then this thread should be also linked in …

Great! I think you have a claim to the right of creating this repo. :slight_smile: Ownership can later be transferred to some Julia org.

Ok, I will set something up and put together a first example using Literate.jl!

https://github.com/johnfgibson/julia-examples Empty at the moment…I’ll find a good first simple example and experiment with Literate.jl…PRs welcome…maybe you can beat me to example #1.

A good place to start looking might be the rosseta code: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Julia

Idea: repository for examples highlighting Julia's strengths

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floswald August 24, 2018, 12:46pm 6

Great idea. Literate.jl is better than notebooks because it’s easier to version control I would say.

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