the MFE class will be in Winter 2018, so Jan through Mar. we will leave the choice of version up to our students, but I think we will recommend julia 0.6.2.
pranav bhat (our resident julia expert) and I are creating a wiki, to be public in a week or two at http://julia.cookbook.tips, that will collect all sorts of recipes and will, we hope, complement the official docs and forum. We are planning on working on it quite a lot over the next week. I will post a notice here when we have something share-worthy and when we want to solicit questions about what else we should cover.
regards,
/iaw