Welcome to an Introduction to Julia

This is a short introductory tutorial for the Julia programming language.

This tutorial is supported by the HSF JuliaHEP team and currently it is maintained by Sam Skipsey and Graeme Stewart.

This material is part of the HSF Software Training Centre, a series of training modules that serves HEP newcomers in learning the software skills they need as the enter the field and promotes best practice in writing software.

Introduction to Julia

• Julia for Python (and C++) programmers
• Example Julia Code
• Installing and Running Julia
• Operators and Variables
• Arrays
• Functions and Control Flow
• Anonymous Functions and Do-block
• Multiple Dispatch
• Broadcasting
• The Julia Community

Additional Topics

• Plotting in Julia
• Alternatives: Makie.jl
• DataFrames in Julia

Exercises

• Installing and Running Julia
• The (Newton)-Raphson-Simpson method
• DataFrames Exercise

This material is release under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY-4.0. Please see the LICENSE file.