Helpful Resources

This page contains links to resources that may be helpful for the course. If you have a resource that you think would be helpful to others, please let me know and I will add it to the list.

Julia

There are lots of great resources on programming and Julia. Here is a curated list of some particularly helpful tools.

Some of these tutorials provide their own instructions on how to install Julia. Please follow the instructions provided in lab 1.

Getting Started

• Julia for Nervous Begineers: A free course on JuliaAcademy for people who are hesitant but curious about learning to write code in Julia.
• FastTrack to Julia cheatsheet
• Comprehensive Julia Tutorials: YouTube playlist covering a variety of Julia topics, starting with an introduciton to the language.
• Matlab-Python-Julia Cheatsheet

Digging Deeper

• Introduction to Computational Thinking: a great Julia-based course at MIT covering applied mathematics and computational thinking

Plotting and Visualization

• Makie Tutorials

Other Software Tools

Git and GitHub

• Version Control from MIT’s “CS: Your Missing Semester” course.
• Git and GitHub for Poets: YouTube playlist covering the basics of git and GitHub.
• Version Control with Git course from Software Carpentry

Zotero

• Zotero and Citation Management by Fondren library
• Zotero Quick Start Guide
• The Better BiBTeX extension can be very helpful for exporting references in a format compatible with Quarto

Typesetting Math

• Justin Bois’ tutorial.
• Markdown Cheatsheet
• LaTeX Cheatsheet
• Mathpix Snip allows you to convert images of equations to LaTeX code (there is a free tier)
• Detexify lets you draw a symbol and suggests the LaTeX code for the corresponding symbol