Getting started: Installing Julia

To be able to follow this class and complete the homeworks, you need a working installation of the Julia programming language. To install Julia on your computer, take a look at the installation notes of MIT's computational thinking class or watch: How to install Julia and Pluto

Essentially this boils down to:

• Download Julia for your operating system from https://julialang.org/downloads
• Start Julia, e.g. by starting the Julia 1.10 from your program menu or by executing
  julia
  in a Terminal.
• Install Pluto, the notebook environment that we will are using in this course. Note, that Pluto is not the only way you can run Julia, but it is particularly well-suited for the quick and interactive experiments we will perform. To install Pluto run in your Julia REPL:

import Pkg

Pkg.add("Pluto")

 

• Run Pluto: Still in the REPL execute

import Pluto

Pluto.run()

 

See the installation notes of MIT's computational thinking class for more details.