I’m looking for community members to contribute to our online introductory tutorial series. The goal of this series is to make Julia and its ecosystem accessible to new users.
If you’re the developer or experienced user of a Julia package and you are willing to make teaching materials to introduce new Julia users to that package, please reach out to me here or at jane at juliacomputing dot com.
I’ll help review materials before you stream your tutorial and get you set up with streaming (show you how to use an encoder to stream to youtube, for example, if you’re not familiar).
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions about this, even if you’re not sure if you’re able to contribute!
Plots.jl + GR yes, but any of the code would also work if you copy/pasted and used Plots.jl + plotly, with of course the only difference that the display would look a little different.
In theory, yes. Luckily since GR is solid almost everywhere, if students copy the code it would work (they may not remember to swap out backends).
The other problem are latex labels/etc. in plots. For now, I think it is best to completely avoid them since Plots.jl backends are inconsistent in their support.
I’m just a lurker on this discourse trying to decide if i want to pick julia up as my first programming language. I only intend to do “general programming” as a hobby.
What i wish to see, is a simple tutorial on how to do basic programming with julia. What i saw in the last tutorial was way over my head
Please do let me know if julia is not as well suited, as other languages, for general programming.
I have students right now in my classes using Julia as a first programming language. If you stick with the juliabox environment (and people writing tutorials stick with the simplest plotting library), I think it is doable. But most of these students are learning julia to do numerical computing rather than general purpose computing
## Program welcome_user.jl
print("Please enter your name: ");
namestr = readline();
println(" \nWelcome, $namestr");
println("Press enter to continue");
readline();
print(newline,“Just type your name and press enter: “)
your_name = readline()
message = string(“Hello “, your_name,”!”)
println(newline_tab,message)
println(newline,”(bye)”)
Extracting data from a csv file.
Working with a database.
Solving a project euler problem step by step.
On a sidenote: I like reading through solutions to problems on reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer. But I have yet to see a solution using julia, if memory serves me correct.
