# Issues encountered teaching classes with Julia for the first time

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-encountered-teaching-classes-with-julia-for-the-first-time/56553>\
**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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**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-encountered-teaching-classes-with-julia-for-the-first-time/56553/24 "2021-03-05T18:29:13Z")

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Wouldn’t the problem be partly solved by providing an environment with pinned packages? This will not solve all problems but the OP was mainly concerned about what happens if the package landscape is moving during the course. I would argue that the course does not need to follow package changes.

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