Julia is a programming language created at MIT to be used for scientific computing. It is designed to solve the two-language problem most of you might face every day, by being as easy to use as Python/R/Matlab but with the speed of C/C++/Fortran.
With this workshop, we want to introduce you to the Julia programming language and its applications and capabilities in scientific software development. The event is planned to be community-forming, which means we also want to bring together people considering adopting Julia in their projects and build up a forum for support and discussion related to Julia at CASUS. That's why the workshop will be held in person at Untermark 20, so we can move the social parts of the workshop to the beautiful Görlitz Christmas market.
Some of the sessions in the workshop are planned in a more tutorial-like style, where we teach you how to install/run/develop in Julia on your Computer. Therefore, no prior experiences in Julia are necessary to join the workshop. However, some knowledge about programming is recommended - may be gathered from another language like C/C++/Fortran/Python/R/Matlab. Furthermore, since all tutorials will be done in jupyter notebooks, a running python installation including jupyter is mandatory. However, we are pleased to help you with this as well. Edited