Julia: the good, the bad and the ugly

This repository contains Julia code and notebooks and is intended to get familiar with the language.

What is it?

1. julia,_good_back_ugly.pptx: Powerpoint presentation highlighting features of the Julia programming language.
2. source-code: Julia source code and notebooks.
3. environment.yml: conda environment to use Jupyter lab.
4. LICENSE: license information for the material in this repository.
5. CONTRIBUTING.md: how to contirubte to this repository.

How to?

To start a Julia notebook

$ julia
julia> using IJulia
julia> notebook()

If the IJulia package is not yet installed, you can do that using

$ julia
julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.add("IJulia")

Note: recent versions of Julia will offer to install the package when you first try to use it.

Contributors

• Geert Jan Bex (geertjan.bex@uhasselt.be), Hasselt University/University of Leuven
• Joris Van Houtven
  • suggestions to improve the Powerpoint presentation

You are very welcome to contribute, please read some guidelines before you do.