This repo contains the homework for the
ANN203
course.
- Install Julia. I suggest using Juliaup for an easier version control.
- Install Pluto
- Open a terminal and enter the Julia REPL by typing
julia - Enter the following lines to open a browser with Pluto.jl
using Pluto
Pluto.run()You should see something like this on your web browser:
The last step is to load the homework assignment. Either download the homework and enter the path to the downloaded file in Pluto, or copy and paste the following
URL on the Open a notebook window and press Open:
https://github.com/maltezfaria/ANN203/blob/main/ANN203_tp0.jl
That should load the notebook for the TP0 in a safe preview mode. To execute the content of the notebook, you will need to give Pluto permission to run some code.
If you are familiar with Matlab, it should not be too difficult to get started
with Julia. A lot of the syntax looks familiar, and Julia's standard library
comes with a LinearAlgebra package implementing many of the things that you
love about Matlab (e.g. the magical backslash \ operator). Here is a list
of noteworthy
differences
that may help you get started translating code.
As you will notice in your first assignment, the homework for this class is
available both in the form of a static HTML file (which you can open in any
browser) and in the form of a Pluto notebook.
Pluto provides a notebook-like
environment for combining Julia with pretty text that can easily be rendered
on a website, and you can think of it as a web-based workflow for developing
code (similar to e.g. Jupyter notebooks if you have heard of those). While in
general I don't recommend using Pluto for coding anything long or complex,
most of the code you will write in this class is simple enough that using
Pluto as a web-based
IDE may be a
viable option. My suggestion is to give it a try to see if it fits you.
Should you find yourself hating Pluto.jl (and missing matlab), I suggest you
try Visual Studio Code with its julia
extension to have an
out-of-the-box experience as similar to matlab as possible. Keep in mind
that I still expect you to submit your code as a Pluto notebook, but you can
always just copy and paste the code to Pluto after you get it to work.