This really is amazing. It is also now on top in our teaching section on the website, as I am sure that a lot of people will find this to be really useful.
http://julialang.org/teaching/ -viral On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 10:22:26 PM UTC-7, David P. Sanders wrote: > > Hi, > > I gave a 4-hour Julia tutorial at the SciPy 2014 meeting in Austin a > couple of days ago. > > The video is now available online at > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkgEddb4-A > > The IJulia notebooks are available at > > https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia > > Due to the nature of the audience, the tutorial was aimed at people with > experience of scientific Python, so it skates over those things that are > similar to Python. But it tried to cover all the basics of the Julia > syntax, and a touch of internals, and why Julia is interesting for that > audience. > > I would like to develop this first attempt into a basic interactive Julia > tutorial, which I feel has been rather missing until now. (Douglas Bates > has a recent one aimed at a different community.) > > I do feel that the notebook format is the right fit for these kinds of > tutorials. > Incidentally, Fernando Pérez announced at the SciPy meeting that the > IPython Notebook interface will be renamed to Jupyter to emphasise language > agnosticism; the "Ju" comes from Julia ;) So we should start calling them > Jupyter notebooks, instead of IPython or IJulia > > I would be very happy to receive pull requests and/or to separate this out > into a separate repo if people would like to do some kind of crowd > development. > > Thanks to Daniel Jones for pointing out that the tutorial was now online. > > David. >
