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Installation

In order to participate in the course, everyone should install a recent version of Julia together with some text editor of choice. Furthermore during the course we will introduce some best practices of creating/testing and distributing your own Julia code, for which we will require a GitHub account.

We recommend to install Julia via juliaup. We are using the latest, stable version of Julia (which at the time of this writing is v1.9). Once you have installed juliaup you can get any Julia version you want via:

juliaup add $JULIA_VERSION

# or more concretely:
juliaup add 1.9

# but please, just use the latest, stable version

Now you should be able to start Julia an be greeted with the following:

$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.9.2 (2023-07-05)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia>

Julia IDE

There is no one way to install/develop and run Julia, which may be strange users coming from MATLAB, but for users of general purpose languages such as Python, C++ this is quite common. Most of the Julia programmers to date are using

This setup is described in a comprehensive step-by-step guide in our bachelor course Julia for Optimization & Learning.

Note that this setup is not a strict requirement for the lectures/labs and any other text editor with the option to send code to the terminal such as Vim (+Tmux), Emacs, or Sublime Text will suffice.

GitHub registration & Git setup

As one of the goals of the course is writing code that can be distributed to others, we recommend a GitHub account, which you can create here (unless you already have one). In order to interact with GitHub repositories, we will be using git. For installation instruction (Windows only) see the section in the bachelor course.