Hi there guys! I'm brand new to Julia, but I'm super excited about its prospects. The truth is, I can't seem to stop myself from playing around with it. It seems as though you've combined all the good stuff I liked in Haskell and Scala with the ease of use that I get with Python.
Right now, I've finished the MIT tutorials on Julia, namely the lightning round and the talk on the underlying philosophies behind Julia. Luckily I had a good understanding of Linear Algebra (albeit a little rusty), so the first tutorial was not difficult. However, starting off with matrices and complex number might be somewhat of a deterrent to some of the people I know who could potentially reap great benefits from using Julia. I don't dispute the fact that *what* was discussed was simple, but I feel that a good ol' tutorial that helps people transition from thinking about the traditional OO to OO/Type Sytem in Julia would be truly helpful. I can totally understand the creators of Julia wanting to hit it off with the scientific community, but Julia (from my initial perspective) can work quite well in building web-frameworks. Reading through Morsel.js, I can say that although I don't understand everything thats going on, I can understand the overall structure of things. Its great that the Lightning round encouraged learners to dive into the source code, after all its just Julia ;-) I might be wrong, but constantly touting Julia's Math chops might give people the impression that the So, I wanted to start helping the Julia community in any way I can. I created a chat room on stackoverflow -> http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/51777/julia Right now, my university exams are over, so I can take some time to create a couple of simple video tutorials. I hope you guys can critique them for me, I wan to improve my skills. -- Nafiul
