On 16 April 2016 at 10:33, Tamas Papp <tkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In a university you usually have an IT department who would maintain the > server; it is very unusual that these kind of tasks would be the > responsibility of the lecturer. Many universities already run Jupyter so > it is easy to add Julia, and if they don't, setting it up is not that > big of a deal for IT -- you should be able to convince them. >
To start with, I am not a lecturer (other than in the sense that I do a little bit of teaching). I have never seen a university that serve a new web app for 50,000 students campus-wide because one PhD student in astronomy with a class of 30 doesn't like Matlab. When I am a lecturer in charge of a course I would have freedom to choose the course software, and I will be able to ditch Matlab because I don't like it. At that moment, I would probably tell the students to use JuliaBox or to install Julia+Jupyter on their computer using Steven's instructions. Cheers, Daniel.
