Heya! Thanks for the reply. I was have a mind-map of some of the ideas for the first video. I'll post it up here as soon as I can, hopefully you guys can give me some feedback.
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 6:14:39 PM UTC+6, Viral Shah wrote: > > Welcom Nafiul. > > Glad you like julia. The tutorials that are put up were designed as a > short tutorial for engineers at MIT. Since we recorded them, we put them up. > > It would be great if you can do some introduction to julia video > tutorials. I am sure there are many who will appreciate these. > > -viral > > On Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:27:23 PM UTC+5:30, Nafiul Islam wrote: >> >> 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 >> >
