Chapter 1. Installing the Julia Platform

This chapter guides you through the download and installation of all the necessary components of Julia. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Installing Julia
  • Working with Julia's shell
  • Start-up options and Julia scripts
  • Packages
  • Installing and working with Julia Studio
  • Installing and working with IJulia
  • Installing Sublime-IJulia
  • Installing Juno
  • Other editors and IDEs
  • Working of Julia

By the end of this chapter, you will have a running Julia platform. Moreover, you will be able to work with Julia's shell as well as with editors or integrated development environments with a lot of built-in features to make development more comfortable.

Installing Julia

The Julia platform in binary (that is, executable) form ...

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