Great, when I get back to the States I'll show that to my son Alex... BTW, his science project when very well... I'll have to put up a gist with what he wrote... totally trivial, he just learned string interpolation, julia for loop syntax, print/println, using vectors, and using things like sum and `.==`, but it was enough for his project. Interesting, about the effect of the syntax... a good point in favor of Julia's math-like syntax, which sometimes drives me batty! ;-)
On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 1:12:31 AM UTC+2, Keith Campbell wrote: > > Hey Scott, > Just bumped across an old IJulia Notebook my 9-year old and I did last > year. He was getting '24' problems (use +,-,*,/ with 4 numbers to make 24) > and got one he swore couldn't be solved. We put together a little > brute-force solver to test that out -- he was right. > > Anyway, I spruced it up a little and presented to his class, where > they had a good time playing with it. You can see the notebook at: > https://github.com/catawbasam/catawbasam_sandbox/blob/master/Julia_24.ipynb > > We actually started off with Python, but switched to Julia, largely > because Julia's syntax is a little closer to the math notation the kids are > used to seeing. > regards, > Keith >
