Installing and Running Julia

Installing and Running Julia#

Installing Julia#

If you haven’t already done so, visit the Julia downloads page

  • Pick the installer for your platform, use the current stable release

  • Unpack/install locally

If you installed a tarball release, you may need to add the location of the Julia bin directory to your PATH

Run Julia#

Check that when you execute julia the REPL starts, like this:

   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.9.3 (2023-08-24)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> println("hello, world!")
hello, world!

julia> (2+3)^2
25

julia>

As shown above, try typing a few commands and checking that they execute as expected.

You should have learned…#

  1. How to install Julia

  2. How to start the Julia REPL and execute commands

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