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 > > > > -- > > Tiffany A. Timbers, PhD > > Banting Postdoctoral fellow, Leroux Lab > > Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry > > Simon Fraser University > > 8888 University Drive > > Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 > > > > 604-803-4962 > > > > [email protected] > > tiffanytimbers.com > > @TiffanyTimbers > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > -- > Timothée Poisot, Ph.D. Professeur adjoint > Quantitative and Computational Ecology > Department of Biological Sciences Université de Montréal > Web: http://poisotlab.io/ Twitter: @PoisotLab > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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