Using ThinkJulia

using ThinkJulia
Info: Precompiling ThinkJulia [a7fb756-c18b-4c7f-87da-faca9ac81629]
Info: Skipping recompilation since precompile(false). Importing ThinkJulia [a7fb756-c18b-4c7f-87da-faca9ac81629]
ERROR: LocalError: ThinkJulia not installed properly, run pkg.build(“Think Julia”), restart Julia and try again.

(can’t create turtle?)

Hi @AGoh2019! It’s quite hard to know what the problem is without further details :slight_smile: Could you maybe tell us

  • what kind of hardware you’re running this on?
  • which version of Julia? (output of versioninfo())
  • what’s in the current environment? (output of using Pkg; Pkg.status())

ThinkJulia is an old package and people have reported problems when trying to install and run it:

So - it might not be a good idea to spend too much time trying to troubleshoot this issue.

The contents of the book are (mostly) still worth reading.

Was informed that ThinkJulia was an old package, and many users have encountered problems while trying to install it. Hence, I am skipping the topic, and continue to read up on Julia.

Regards,

— Andrew Goh

By the way, the author of ThinkJulia @BenLauwens just merged some PRs, so ThinkJulia.jl now works OK on the latest Julia version: