# Julia's growth is making free JuliaBox unsustainable

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** juliabox\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441 "2019-01-09T18:06:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/81 "2019-12-04T09:29:33Z")

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Personally, I think that for longer courses (not just 2h tutorials) students should just install Julia and IJulia locally. I consider it as a part of the learning process. It also has the advantage that it scales in the end.

In my experience, the installation is completely painless in 85-90% of the cases. I even created a little [WorkshopWizard.jl](https://github.com/crstnbr/WorkshopWizard.jl) in case someone really wants a (almost) “one command” installation. As indicated by the [troubleshooting section of the docs](https://crstnbr.github.io/WorkshopWizard.jl/dev/troubleshooting/) almost all remaining installation issues (again, less than 15%) are due to old python versions or IJulia not finding the correct one. These are likely to be solved by setting `ENV[PYTHON]` appropriately.

For short, beginner tutorials JuliaBox/JupyterHub or something similar seems like the best choice to me.

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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/82 "2019-12-04T09:31:45Z")

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> [@carstenbauer](#):
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> (not just 2h tutorials)

Yes, my teaching was short: just two double lectures. If it was for a whole course (with a focus on coding), I’d also get them to install Julia.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/83 "2019-12-04T09:34:58Z")

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> [@mauro3](#):
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> for next year, I’ll try to get a university JupyterHub installation setup.

We had very good experience with that. Our IT already runs this for R, so it was relatively easy to convince them to add Julia. This is a great fallback even if most students bring in laptops and install Julia; actually the latter alleviates the workload on the server, so it is a win-win.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/84 "2019-12-04T10:17:08Z")

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FWIW, I forgot to mention that I also created a [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rnm0n39DCs) showing how to install Julia + IJulia manually on Windows.

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/85 "2019-12-04T10:26:21Z")

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```julia
]add IJulia
using IJulia
notebook()

```

?

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julias-growth-is-making-free-juliabox-unsustainable/19441/86 "2019-12-04T14:37:25Z")

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Conceptually, yes (+ how to install Julia in the first place + how to create a new notebook in jupyter). It is a pedagogical video. I don’t think I have to explain why handing out these three lines might not be enough for many beginners.

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