There are a number of resources listed here: http://julialang.org/learning/
In particular, David Sanders' tutorial videos are excellent (aimed at Python users but very accessible). Regarding migration guides, probably the main resource is the "Noteworthy differences" (from Mat/Py/R) section of the manual. On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 12:05 PM, ivo welch <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
