On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 11:15 -0400, João Felipe Santos wrote: > There's this nice "programming by example"-style tutorial that you can > skim to get a grasp of the syntax, features, and standard libraries, > as well as some plotting > libs: http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf. > > -- > João Felipe Santos Thank you. That's about what I was looking for.
It seems odd that [1; 2] != [1 2]'; typeof shows the former is 1-dimensional and the latter 2-dimensional (if I'm interpreting correctly), but that seems kind of inconsistent. > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:38 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anything that is intermediate between the manual and > the introductory material that is kind of a "taste of"? > I've looked in the documentation and teaching sections (not > sure if the latter is relevant if I don't plan to teach with > Julia), but haven't found anything that looked right. I > notice there are some videos, but I find that slow way to get > information. > > > Analogs for C: Kernighan and Ritchie, not Harbison and Steele; > for C++: Stroustrup, not the C++ standard. Probably a better comparison would be to the intro documents that are part of the R (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html) and Python distributions (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html). The julia manual looks very good, but something a bit more approachable would be helpful to get people started. Ross
