# Introductory textbooks

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214>\
**Category:** Teaching & Outreach\
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214 "2020-06-08T22:50:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ramayya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@Ramayya](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ramayya)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/1 "2020-06-08T22:50:09Z")

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Dr. Shah,

Need a very good introductory publication on “Julia" with illustrations, similar to the book “Illustrating C (revised edition ansi iso version)” by Donald Alcock (1992) or “Illustrating Pascal” by Donald Alcock (1987).

A book/document would be very helpful for non-computer geeks (e.g. engineers, physicians, economists and others) to acquire “Julia” for their computing tasks/projects.

Suggest, having a set of items in the survey that are useful for newbies and non-computer geeks wanting to learn “Julia".

Sincerely,

Ramayya

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**Author:** ![samusz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/samusz/32/7972_2.png) [@samusz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/samusz)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/2 "2020-06-11T10:53:32Z")

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> [@Ramayya](#):
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> Need a very good introductory publication on “Julia" with illustrations, similar to the book “Illustrating C (revised edition ansi iso version)” by Donald Alcock (1992) or “Illustrating Pascal” by Donald Alcock (1987).
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> A book/document would be very helpful for non-computer geeks (e.g. engineers, physicians, economists and others) to acquire “Julia” for their computing tasks/projects.

`I believe if the documentation had more and very clear or explained use case example it would be enough in the base case.

[Often I find myself understanding the ?help but with no clue as to how to use it. It’s a bit the case with the R docs where documentation goes far in the math details and assumes implementation is a given, but there at least the “vignettes” help.]

A book would be nice. Still there is the [GitHub - VMLS-book/VMLS.jl](https://github.com/VMLS-book/VMLS.jl) book and others. Also there’s a LOT of IJulia Jupyter notebooks --which IMOO I like for “live” demos but are usually not meant or intended for after-the-fact use.

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**Author:** ![Ramayya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@Ramayya](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ramayya)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/3 "2020-06-11T17:39:17Z")

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Hello,

It is not what that underlies Julia, but what is the structure of Julia for use by the newbie.

May I suggest that you look at KINME Learning Resources \<[https://www.knime.com/resources\>,](https://www.knime.com/resources%3E,) to update Julia Learning Resources?

Sincerely,

Ramayya

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**Author:** ![anon37204545](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@anon37204545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon37204545)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/4 "2020-06-11T18:17:03Z")

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> [@Ramayya](#):
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> A book/document would be very helpful for **non-computer geeks (e.g. engineers, physicians, economists and others)** to acquire “Julia” for their computing tasks/projects.

Since you mentioned that, you may be interested in this:  
[https://julia.quantecon.org/](https://julia.quantecon.org/)

The first 4 chapters ([Getting Started with Julia](https://julia.quantecon.org/getting_started_julia/index.html), [Packages and Software Engineering in Julia](https://julia.quantecon.org/more_julia/index.html), [Tools and Techniques](https://julia.quantecon.org/tools_and_techniques/index.html), [Dynamic Programming](https://julia.quantecon.org/dynamic_programming/index.html)) do not actually delve deep into economics, so it is useful to all scientific fields. It has good language introduction, examples and exercises.

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**Author:** ![Ramayya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@Ramayya](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ramayya)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/5 "2020-06-12T19:54:34Z")

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Thanks for the link!

May I suggest that you take a look at either of the books “Illustrating C” or “Illustrating Pascal” by Alcock?

These books are available at \<epdf.pub\>.

Ramayya

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**Author:** ![Ramayya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@Ramayya](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ramayya)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-textbooks/41214/6 "2020-06-12T19:56:02Z")

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Also, you may want to look at KNIME at \<[https://www.knime.com](https://www.knime.com)\>.

Ramayya