thank you, isaiah. I had skipped the video since I come from R, not from python. I started watching it. it's indeed pretty good. (I am old school---I usually google-and-read rather than watch-video.) [thanks, david.]
I tried contributors() in julialang, but that didn't tell me who "our" core team is. it wasn't anywhere obvious on the website. the reason is that I wanted to know who of the four authors Bruce Tate, Fred Daoud, Jack Moffitt, Ian Dees wrote the julia chapter. eventually, I found it on the book website. so, I sent Jack Moffitt an email to ask him whether they can sell just the julia chapter of their book to our students separately. I can't ask my non-CS students to purchase a book about many programming languages. everyone, wish me luck ;-) regards, /iaw /iaw ---- Ivo Welch ([email protected]) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 Director, UCLA Anderson Fink Center for Finance and Investments Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ Exec Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ Editor and Publisher, FAMe, http://www.fame-jagazine.com/ On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
