1GETTING STARTED
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As mentioned in the introduction, to learn a programming language, it’s not enough to read a book—not even one as good as this. Experimenting and writing programs yourself is essential. After absorbing a key concept in the book or running a code sample, try to construct variations of the code and run them. Writing your own variations will help you achieve fluency in the language.
This chapter first covers how to install Julia on all the major operating systems, and then discusses the various types of coding environments. We’ll see ...
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