# Issues encountered teaching classes with Julia for the first time

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-encountered-teaching-classes-with-julia-for-the-first-time/56553 "2021-03-05T13:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-encountered-teaching-classes-with-julia-for-the-first-time/56553/10 "2021-03-05T15:47:08Z")

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This is what I use:

> [@Portable Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/portable-julia/45339/12):
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> 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 script so that user names with spaces in them do not cause any trouble.

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