Math camp coding session

An introduction to coding for econ PhD students, using Julia
20 August 2020

Contents:

1. A high-level overview and introduction to coding in economics (slides in tex and pdf format)
2. A Jupyter notebook (Julia v1.5.0) walking through the very basic features of Julia with an eye to numerical computing

Setup instructions for Julia and Jupyter:

1. Install Julia from here: http://julialang.org/downloads/
2. Open the Julia application and install IJulia by typing the ] key followed by add IJulia
3. Type the backspace key and then the following line of code: using IJulia; jupyterlab() and accept all the defaults.

If you need to troubleshoot, try QuantEcon, on which these instructions are based (but which has many more steps).

Thanks to Pedro Degiovanni, Michael Droste, Erica Moszkowski, and Ljubica Ristovska for useful suggestions and feedback.