Ja, I think it is the actual computer science thing I am struggling with. Any suggestions for an introduction to that - I know, I can look up Amazon or our University Library, but from user to newbie?
On Friday, 29 August 2014 15:32:01 UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > And we have our O'Reilly animal: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Unfortunately, the book isn't written yet, so currently the best resource > is the Julia manual: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/. It's > fairly readable, although later chapters may be more computer sciencey than > some are used to. > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Philipp Schiffer <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> This is kind of an awkward question, but well. So I am using Python (and >> some R) for my work as a computational biologists, can write my own scripts >> for "big data" handling. Recently found Julia and instantly liked the idea >> of the "Eierlegendewollmilchsau". So installed and started using, wrote >> some simple loops and stuff for iterating through a file. But then realised >> that I am missing something in terms of basic knowledge, even to comprehend >> (or really understand) what is said in the manual. >> So, my simple question: what is the best thing (book) to start with to >> really understand the syntax and grammar if Julia? To get into >> hacking/progging seriously? >> >> Thanks >> >> Philipp >> >> >> > >
