Good information to have, thanks. Do you think Juno is easier than ijulia?
Is Julia as much of a "marketable skill" as matlab or Python? (Not that I'm saying marketability is necessarily a good thing..I had a comp sci course in Scheme after all) Sent from my iPhone > On 16 May 2015, at 10:26 pm, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been using it for a few semesters now for both grad and undergrad > courses. Last year it was a bit rough, but this year it seemed to go pretty > smoothly. I just have them use PyPlot, and run an installfest at the > beginning of the term for students to get Julia+IJulia+PyPlot installed > (basically I tell them to install Julia and the Anaconda Python distro). > (They can also use JuliaBox, but most students prefer to run things locally > on their laptops.) > > See also: https://github.com/stevengj/julia-mit > > For homework assignments, I have them email their notebooks to the TAs, who > print them out and grade them. (That way, only the TAs need to have LaTeX, > Pandoc etc installed to get nice printed output from Jupyter notebooks.) > >> On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:42:35 PM UTC-4, Sheehan Olver wrote: >> I'm moving a Mathematical Computing course from Fortran to another >> language. I'd like to do Julia, but after a bad experience with students >> trying to use Julia box, and the difficulty with plotting packages, I'm a >> bit wary. Other options are Matlab (which is really easy for students but >> teaches bad coding) or Python (I don't like the np.array(...) syntax).
