For CS lingo, don't underestimate Wikipedia. Most well-defined technical terms are explained quite well there, so just doing a search there (or on google) for terms you don't understand while reading the manual will get you a long way. (Also, my impression is that although parts of the Julia manual are littered with CS stuff, most of the theoretical things are re-occurring, so you don't really need a lot of them even for the parts of the manual that use them a lot. Thus, reading up to a degree in CS just to understand the manual is clearly overkill...)
And of course, if there are things you don't understand anyway, feel free to ask on this list =) This is probably the friendliest corner of the internet I've ever stumbled upon. (Side note: if you ask here about things you find difficult to grok in the manual, chances are that the discussion will not only lead to you understanding it better, but also that the text in the manual is changed to something that is easier to understand) On Friday, August 29, 2014 5:51:44 PM UTC+2, Philipp Schiffer wrote: > > 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]> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >>
