I enjoyed it too while reviewing. In fact I just met up with Bruce Tate a couple of weeks back here in Bangalore, and it was fun talking about Julia and other stuff. His story about how they needed a seventh language and how it ended up being Julia is really entertaining and one should ask him...
This is certainly a good idea and we should add it to the website. We generally need a website redesign, but that is a different topic altogether. -viral On Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:48:04 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > I got to review the Julia chapter and really enjoyed it. It's quite good. > Looking forward to reading the whole book! Please to submit a PR adding a > link to the book. > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:02 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a good idea. Please submit a pull request that adds link to that > section. > > -- John > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Ivo Balbaert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Within some weeks the Pragmatic Programmers will publish the book: "Seven > More Languages in Seven Weeks" > by Bruce Tate, Fred Daoud, Jack Moffitt, Ian Dees: > https://pragprog.com/book/7lang/seven-more-languages-in-seven-weeks > > It contains a tutorial Chapter for programmers new to Julia, which is > really very good, with nice examples, exercises and so on. > > I think it is a great introduction to people wanting to learn more about > Julia in a few reading sessions and so > that it is worthwhile to mention it on the Julia website, probably under > the "learning" heading, in a new section Books. > > Don't you think this is a good idea ? > > Cheers, > > Ivo > > > > > >
