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config.yaml

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 # Information for Instructors
 instructors: 
+- overview.md
 
 # Learner Profiles
 profiles: 

instructors/overview.md

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+---
+title: Lesson Overview
+---
+
+## Audience
+
+People know how to program in either Python or R (never both!)
+
+## Goal
+
+Create new Julia advocates. Win them over by showing technical superiority. World Domination!
+
+## Setup
+
+- TODO: Create named env that people can precompile
+
+## Scope
+
+- Introduction to Julia: 1st day
+    - using Pluto
+    - basics of Julia: 3h
+        - basic flow control
+        - broadcasting
+        - Multiple dispatch
+        - Parametric types
+        - do syntax (similar to Python `with`)
+        - Plotting with Makie: 1h
+    - mis-en-place: 3h
+        - creating a package
+        - best practices:
+            - use modules
+            - use functions
+            - only globals when const
+            - ...
+        - testing
+        - Revise
+        - VSCode
+
+- Efficient computing: 2nd day
+    - Performance analysis: 2h
+        - The compiler is slow
+        - BenchmarkTools
+        - Profiling
+        - Type stability:
+            - `@code_warntype`
+            - Cthulu
+    - useful libraries: 30min
+        - (scipy)  there is none:
+            - SciML stack (Abel says: overengineered wrappers)
+            - JuMP
+            - quadrature, root-finding, ode-solving, optimisation
+            - Google
+        - (pandas) Dataframes.jl
+    - Parallel programming: 2h
+        - Channels
+        - Tasks
+        - Threads
+        - Transducer based stuff
+        - mention: GPU
+        - mention: Distributed: https://github.com/JuliaParallel/ClusterManagers.jl
+
+## Guiding examples
+
+Principle: examples that are not *too* technical, but give the participants the feeling that we're solving real-world problems.
+
+- Computing $\pi$ for realz
+- Mandelbrot
+- Lorenz attractor
+- k-means clustering
+- generate data, process, optimise! (analysis pipeline example)
+- 
+