Hi fellow Julians,
I am happy to announce the publication of the book "Getting started with Julia Programming" on Feb 28 2015 by Packt Publishing, ISBN13: 9781783284795, 214 pages: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-started-julia-programming I hope it can serve well as a gentle introduction to Julia programming. Having worked for some 30 years as a professional developer, I now teach programming languages and I like to keep track of new developments. I am by training a physicist, so I believe in mathematics as the language for describing the universe, and Julia is perfectly suited for scientific and technical computing. In the best tradition of scientific deduction (;-): A language that excels at mathematical programming should also be excellent for general programming purposes. Because I like Julia very much, I wrote this book to promote Julia and to offer interested new developers another way to get familiar with its usage. The book's quality level was guarded and enhanced by the following reviewers: - Pascal Bugnion: is a PhD student in the Theory of Condensed Matter group in the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Cambridge. - Michael Otte: is a Postdoctoral Associate with Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Dustin Stansbury, who works as a graduate student researcher at the Vision Science Group at UC Berkeley. Cheers, Ivo Balbaert
