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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Julia

Last Updated on March 21, 2024

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing by Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, Jeff Bezanson, and Viral Shah. Julia aims to create an unprecedented combination of ease-of-use, power, and efficiency in a single language.

It’s a homoiconic functional language focused on technical computing. While having the full power of homoiconic macros, first-class functions, and low-level control, Julia is as easy to learn and use as Python.

Although Julia is a new language, first appearing in 2012, its roots are in Lisp, so it comes with mature features like macros and support for other metaprogramming techniques like code generation. Julia’s expressive grammar lets you write easy-to-read and easier-to-debug code, and its speed gets you through more work in less time. It’s a great choice whether you’re designing a machine learning system, crunching statistical data, or writing system utilities.

Distinctive aspects of Julia’s design include a type system with parametric polymorphism and types in a fully dynamic programming language and multiple dispatch as its core programming paradigm. It allows concurrent, parallel and distributed computing, and direct calling of C and Fortran libraries without glue code.

Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn Julia. If you’re looking for free Julia programming books, check here.


1. Julia language: a concise tutorial by Antonello Lobianco

The purposes of this tutorial are (a) to store things the author learn himself about Julia and (b) to help those who want to start coding in Julia before reading the 982 pages of the (outstanding) official documentation.

Read the tutorial


2. Learn Julia in Y minutes by Leah Hanson

While having the full power of homoiconic macros, first-class functions, and low-level control, Julia is as easy to learn and use as Python.

Read the tutorial


3. Julia Tutorials by The Julia Language

We don’t normally include YouTube videos in our Tutorials section, but this collection of videos is particularly noteworthy. The tutorials cover an introduction to Julia itself, and various Julia packages.

Watch the tutorials


4. A Deep Introduction to Julia for Data Science and Scientific Computing by Chris Rackauckas

This workshop is made to teach people who are experienced with other scripting languages the relatively new language Julia. Unlike the other Data Science Initiative workshops, this workshop assumes prior knowledge of some form of programming in a language such as Python, R, or MATLAB.

Read the workshop


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