Thanks, I have asked the editor at Packt to upload another chapter from the middle of the book.
Op dinsdag 3 maart 2015 13:04:58 UTC+1 schreef Tamas Papp: > > Looks interesting, but is there a way to get a preview of more than a few > pages? An example chapter somewhere in the middle would be nice. The > preview window on the website throws me out after a few pages, so I could > not really look into the book. > > On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 12:14:58 PM UTC+1, Ivo Balbaert wrote: >> >> Hi fellow Julians, >> >> I am happy to announce the publication of the book "Getting started with >> Julia Programming" on Feb 28 2015 by Packt Publishing, ISBN13: >> 9781783284795, 214 pages: >> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-started-julia-programming >> >> I hope it can serve well as a gentle introduction to Julia programming. >> Having worked for some 30 years as a professional developer, I now teach >> programming languages and I like to keep track of new developments. I am by >> training a physicist, so I believe in mathematics as the language for >> describing the universe, and Julia is perfectly suited for scientific and >> technical computing. In the best tradition of scientific deduction (;-): A >> language that excels at mathematical programming should also be excellent >> for general programming purposes. Because I like Julia very much, I wrote >> this book to promote Julia and to offer interested new developers another >> way to get familiar with its usage. The book's quality level was guarded >> and enhanced by the following reviewers: >> >> - Pascal Bugnion: is a PhD student in the Theory of Condensed Matter >> group in the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Cambridge. >> >> - Michael Otte: is a Postdoctoral Associate with Aerospace Robotics and >> Embedded Systems Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision >> Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. >> >> - Dustin Stansbury, who works as a graduate student researcher at the >> Vision Science Group at UC Berkeley. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ivo Balbaert >> >
