Summary and Schedule

This lesson teaches about the idiosyncrasies of the Julia compared to other programming languages.

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Required Previous Knowledge

We assume that learners have experience with programming in general, but experience with Julia is not required.

	Setup Instructions	Download files required for the lesson
Duration: 00h 00m	1. Introduction	What can we except from this course?
Duration: 00h 05m	2. Programming Language Classification	How does Julia roughly compare to other programming languages?
Duration: 00h 25m	3. Types	What data types does Julia offer out of the box? How can we define our own types?
Duration: 00h 55m	4. Operators	What basic operators/operations does Julia define?
Duration: 01h 05m	5. Loops and Conditionals	What basic loop constructs does Julia offer? What is the syntax for conditionals in Julia?
Duration: 01h 25m	6. Generic Functions	How does Julia implement functions?
Duration: 01h 25m	7. Modules
Duration: 01h 25m	8. Packages
Duration: 01h 25m	9. Foreign Function Interface
Duration: 01h 25m	10. Further Steps
Duration: 01h 30m	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.

Setup

To follow the lesson you need access to a Julia REPL. You can either use a Jupyter-Notebook, if provided by the lesson hosts, or a local Julia installation.

Julia can be downloaded from the official website for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and FreeBSD. It is also part of many Linux distribution’s package system.