/intro-to-julia

Intro to Julia for Scientific Software Club at Cornell

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intro-to-julia

This repository hosts files from an introduction to Julia held at Cornell on October 24, 2016, for the Scientific Software Club.

Slides for the introduction are here.

This introduction covers the basics of getting started with Julia, with a focus on scientific computing:

  • Why Julia?
  • Installation
  • Basic Julia syntax
  • Advanced Julia
    • JIT
    • Introspection
    • Packages
    • Calling out
  • Parallelism
  • Optimization in Julia