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.

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. As of 2020 the most widely adopted way is in combination with the VSCode editor, for which there is an officially supported Julia extension. Moreover this setup is the same as with our bachelor course, which has provided an extensive tutorial mainly in case of installation on Windows machines, here. If you are using any other supported platform, you can use the guide as well replacing some steps with your system specifics (having the julia executable in path or as an alias is a plus). When deciding which version to download we recommend the latest stable release as of September 2022, 1.8.x.

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 Sublime Text, Vim+tmux or Atom will suffice (a major convenience when dealing with programming languages that support interactivity through a Read-Eval-Print Loop - REPL).

GitHub registration & Git setup

As one of the goals of the course is writing code that can be distributed to others, we require 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 client. For installation instruction (Windows only) see the section in the bachelor course.