0. Invitation to Julia.ipynb

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    "# Why Julia?"
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    "# Or: \"Why should I waste my precious time learning yet another faddish programming language??\""
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    "##[David P. Sanders](http://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/~dsanders/)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "###Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences\n",
    "###National University of Mexico (UNAM)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "###Twitter:  @DavidPSanders\n",
    "###GitHub:  dpsanders"
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   "source": [
    "# Advantages of Julia"
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    "Julia is:\n",
    "\n",
    "- high-level and easy to learn\n",
    "- an interactive, dynamic language\n",
    "- but Just-In-Time (JIT) compiled"
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    "So, Julia\n",
    "\n",
    "- is fast (~2-3x C speed)\n",
    "\n",
    "- solves the infamous **two-language problem**\n",
    "\n"
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    "\n",
    "- Most of the standard library is implemented *in Julia itself* \n",
    "\n",
    "- \"Users are developers\"\n"
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    "Julia:\n",
    "\n",
    "- has a sophisticated type system\n",
    "- but it is not *necessary* to talk about types\n",
    "\n",
    "- has *multiple dispatch*: functions specialised on the types of their arguments\n",
    "\n"
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    "\n",
    "- has sophisticated *metaprogramming* (macros) for generating code programatically\n",
    "- allows the creation of domain-specific languages\n"
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   "source": [
    "Julia is:\n",
    "\n",
    "- open source\n",
    "\n",
    "- free\n",
    "\n",
    "- MIT license (allows commercial use)\n",
    "\n",
    "- developed by a worldwide community"
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    "Julia is:\n",
    "\n",
    "- a **new direction** in scientific computing"
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    "Julia is:\n",
    "\n",
    "- the **future** of scientific computing"
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   "source": [
    "# Using Julia"
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    "- From the REPL (Read--Eval--Print Loop):\n",
    "\n",
    "        julia\n",
    "    \n",
    "    \n",
    "    \n",
    "- Inside IJulia notebook (Jupyter notebook with Julia kernel):\n",
    "\n",
    "        ipython notebook\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- Inside an IDE, e.g. Juno\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- In the cloud: [JuliaBox](https://juliabox.org/)"
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   "source": [
    "# Getting help with Julia"
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    "- [Julia manual](http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- [`julia-users` mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- [List of resources for learning Julia](http://julialang.org/learning/)\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- [Hands-on Julia](https://github.com/dpsanders/hands_on_julia): A hands-on tutorial covering the same ground as a series of exercises\n"
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    "# Goal of the workshop "
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    "- Introduce some of the basic ideas that makes Julia different\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- Think in a Julian way\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- Based on examples\n",
    "\n",
    "\n"
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