This semester, for the first time, I have assigned Julia as a required language in my Data Science classes, alongside R. While I am not a beginner to Julia, I am posting this here because I am a novice at trying to use it in teaching. By and large, there is some good work getting done, but I am fa…

I’d suggest using a portable Julia with its own depot. That is your reset button.

[image] johnh: Also the Pluto.jl notebooks are fantastic - they are being used in the MIT Computational Thinking course this weekend. Would you be willing to at least take a look at Pluto? I have not see Yes, I like Pluto, but couldn’t cope with the ‘reactive’ aspect for my Data Science pro…

[image] PetrKryslUCSD: I’d suggest using a portable Julia with its own depot. That is your reset button. Hi. Thanks. That sounds promising. Do you have a link for learning about that?

I’m not sure what the problem is in each case, but a possible solution might be to pin down all versions somehow: [image] Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You The widely used Python package cryptography changed their build system to use Rust for low-level code, which caused an emotiona…

[image] johnh: If you are teaching using Windows please, please consider advising your students to use the chocolatey package manager to install and update Julia. Hi Thanks for that. I think these students are mostly on Windows, and the issues they are having I have not recently experienced…

This is what I use: [image] Portable Julia General Usage One more update: users not raised on *nix systems sometimes insist on having spaces in their usernames, despite advice to the contrary. My script was broken as it did not handle that case properly. I updated the sc…

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, similar to apt or yum from the Linux world or Brew from Mac [image] Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled pack…

I think the simplest way would be to have a JupiterHub server where you set up the necessary packages for the students (I use a medium-power server where I load the necessary packages in a script that is executed when I add the user with adduser… with 20 students is ok…). My biggest problem, by tea…

[image] sylvaticus: My biggest problem, by teaching applied problems where Julia is used to run computational example/applications to students on their last year, is that in the previous years the students already had courses in R and Python or in subjects where the teacher was using them, and t…

A basic issue here is that ensuring smooth software installation for a large class, on a large variety of systems (that might be old or weird in various “creative” ways) is hard. Especially when you are combining lots of different software packages together (e.g. IJulia requires Julia and a workin…

Issues encountered teaching classes with Julia for the first time

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This is what I use:

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