Meeting 1: getting started!

[sje30]

What would we like to cover in meeting 1:

13th November 2019, 13:00-14:30
MR15 (TBC)

• what material could be included?
• recommendations for hosting Julia (online? local installation materials? could maths run
  own julia box? or how about Julia on Azure)

[sje30]

Notes from meeting:

SJE to write overview - logistic

FX conditionals control

Nick - plots() and pyplot()

Tom - annotationg code, handling files, linting

other topics

Working with vectors and matrices

Multiple discpatch

efficiency

intro to computational complexitiy

numerical issues (underflow / epsilon / propagation of errosr)

macros

discrete math stuff

getting help / debugging

working at the repl

exercies

packages / precompiling

How Julia compares to other languages

Random numbers: from rand() to Distributions

Numerical integration / ODE solvers()

keep records of hours

book mr15

email list. add collabs to github (DONE)

[sje30]

I've made a stab at a first go at introduction