dear julia experts---I am about to start teaching my MFE class.  Mostly, my 
students will do programming with data.  My transitioning plan is as 
follows: This year, I am planning to allow using julia.  (R is the 
standard.)  Next year, I am planning to encourage julia equally with R.  In 
2 years, I am planning to switch over to julia (0.5?).  I am expecting 
rough edges esp on the debugging side. I plan to recommend a lot of 
print-and-recompile statements.

Now, my students already have backgrounds in different computer languages, 
which could be anything from VBE to python to R to Matlab to whatever.  I 
know I can point them to the pretty good docs on the julia website.

* if there are teaching/learning resources for new students above and 
beyond the standard julia docs on the web that you would recommend, could 
you please let me know?
* if there are language migration guides that you would recommend, could 
you please let me know?
* if there are quick-reference guides that you would recommend, could you 
please let me know?

(I also suggested having the help system inside julia help with 
transitioning R by "?R.lm", but way too recently to make it in-time.  And 
?python.xxx.  and ?matlab.xxx.)

regards, /iaw

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