Hi Arch - thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful.
On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 2:19:38 PM UTC+1, Arch Call wrote: > > This has been extremely helpful to me in understanding Julia. Your > writing style in gradually building up each new concept with simple > examples hits to the very core of Julia. Thanks again... > > On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 4:47:10 AM UTC-5, Daan Huybrechs wrote: >> >> I have recently given a Julia introduction to a group of numerical >> analysts at the university of Leuven, Belgium. For this, I have written a >> set of notebooks, and they are available here: >> >> https://github.com/daanhb/Julia-tutorial >> >> The goal of the tutorial is not to survey syntax and features of Julia, >> but rather to introduce the concepts of type inference and multiple >> dispatch to people with a background in technical computing and a mindset >> of object-oriented programming. That makes it a bit orthogonal to existing >> introductory material, I think. The contents reflect (hopefully) the main >> messages of the paper "Julia: a fresh approach to numerical computing". >> >> We did three one-hour sessions, using Juliabox. Juliabox is really Very >> Convenient! This is not enough to learn Julia, but it gives a feeling for >> what to expect once you do, and to decide whether it is worth it to pursue >> further. Which of course it is - Julia easily sells itself, especially to >> the audience I had. >> >> >> Feel free to use and adapt, >> Daan >> >>
