I talked with Alan Edelman about this while visiting MIT to teach a
Software Carpentry course a couple of years ago and there's definitely
interest within the Julia Community to see Software Carpentry lessons
developed and taught using Julia.

Cheers,
Aron

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:14 PM Timothée Poisot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tiffany,
>
> I don't think there is any SWC material on Julia. Investing in books at the
> moment is not really worth it since the language is pre-1.0, and changing
> rapidly.
>
> The documentation is a really good resource [1]. The forthcoming von
> Csefalvay
> book [2] is supposed to be good. But it's, well, not finished.
>
> The julia-users mailing list is also amazing. If you have experience on
> the R mailing list, it's ~ the opposite of that.
>
> Two remarks:
>
> - We're using julia for 90% of what we do in the lab (R is for
>   statistics and python for data scraping), and it is going well. And
>   fast.
>
> - What would be the interest of SWC to develop a julia (short) lesson
>   / port the Inflammation lesson?
>
> t
>
> [1]: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/#manual
> [2]: https://www.manning.com/books/julia-in-action
>
> Tiffany Timbers (02/03 11:55):
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I may be working a little bit with Julia (language) with a collaborator.
> I
> > have never used this language before. Do we have any lesson material
> being
> > developed on this that I could be pointed to? Or does anyone know any
> good
> > tutorials or lessons elsewhere on the web?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Tiffany
> >
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> > Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
> > Simon Fraser University
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> >
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> >
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> > @TiffanyTimbers
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