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Introduction to Julia
Date: 17.04.2019 9:00 - 18.04.2019 17:00
Location details: The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips are available.
Language: english-language
lecturers: Joonas Nättilä (Nordita)
Price:
  • 120 for-finnish-academics
  • 560 for-others
The fee covers all materials, lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffees.
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Additional Information
Content: jussi.enkovaara@csc.fi
Practicalities: event-support@csc.fi

Julia is a new high-level, high-performance programming language. In other words, it aims to be simple to write and fast to run. It has gained a lot of visibility especially among various fields of science, such as astronomy, biology, finance, and statistics.

In this course, we will start from the very beginning and learn the basic concepts of programming with Julia. We will also discuss the usage of some popular Julia packages and give an introduction to the Julia ecosystem such as BioJulia, JuliaAstro, and JuliaStats. The course contains both lectures and hands-on exercises.

Learning outcome

After the course participants understand the basics of Julia and are capable of writing simple programs with it. We will also cover the very basics of how to design applications for more demanding computational jobs using Julia's parallel computing capabilities. Finally, the participants will be introduced to the Julia code ecosystem.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to have some experience in computer programming and to be familiar with the basic concepts (e.g. variables, statements, control structures, functions) but previous knowledge of Julia is not required.

Program

Wednesday

9:00 Getting started

9:45 Exercises

10:30 Break (coffee)
 
10:45 Control flow
 
11:15 Exercises
 
12:15 Lunch
 
13:00 Functions 
 
13:45 Exercises
 
14:30 Break (coffee)
 
14:45 I/O
 
15:15 Exercises
 
16:15 End of day
 

Thursday

9:00 Development practices

 9:45 Exercises
 
10:30 Break (coffee)
 
10:45 Julia ecosystem I
 
11:15 Exercises
 
12:15 Lunch
 
13:00 Julia ecosystem II
 
13:45 Exercises
 
14:30 Break (coffee)
 
14:45 High performance computing
 
15:15 Exercises
 
16:15 End of day
Course materials