Getting Started With Julia

Katharine Hyatt
Last updated on Oct 21, 2019 1 min read

Getting into a new programming language is always a bit overwhelming, because there are so many places to start! Here is a short list of things I like to send to people new to Julia, aimed at varying skill levels:

  • Learn X in Y Minutes - Julia edition, a good quick tour if you already know other languages like python pretty well
  • Towards Julia 1.0, by David Sanders, is a great tutorial for the latest versions of Julia. Because the language went through so many changes before 1.0, not all older tutorials will still be usable!
  • Getting Started with 1.0's Package Manager, for those you (probably everyone) who will want to start using libraries in the “package ecosystem” and maybe write your own!
  • How to use the new iteration interface, since many people need to write for-loops!
  • Celeste.jl – amazing example of what mixed (shared and distributed memory) parallelism is capable of in Julia
  • StaticArrays.jl, high performance small arrays which show off some of the features of julia's type parameterization
  • JuliaGPU, which has a collection of packages for writing native Julia code for GPUs and using existing GPU libraries from Julia
  • The JuliaLang learning page, which has lots of good links for learning the language and some best practices
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Katharine Hyatt
Postdoctoral Scholar

My research focuses on developing new numerical methods to understand 2D correlated electronic systems, and finding interesting applications in condensed matter physics for these methods. I also moonlight as a sometime Julia language and package developer.