Fwd: The Julia Language

[Owen Densmore]

Kinda interesting: a language that is very fast designed for science/math applications.
     http://julialang.org/

There is a cloud version to test with, and it can be used with C/Fortran libraries.

It handles parallelism as well.  They mention also having MatLab-like ease of use for mathematics.

     http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

As an aside, I really like the tendency in the mathematics/science community of providing very useable cloud based sites, often with "notebook" interfaces.  My current favorite is a JS matrix system: http://goo.gl/PIHuh

   -- Owen

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[Russ Abbott]

Although not a science/math site, it you want to play around with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, try jsFiddle.net. Here's one where I was playing around with cascading menus and animation using pure CSS3 (no JavaScript). Hover the mouse over the elements in the lower right quadrant. Here are two more simpler ones that fool around with cascading menus: http://goo.gl/lfgGP and http://goo.gl/jVrSz. 

The DOM is the hottest virtual machine. And you can change it on the fly. This has been around for a while, of course, but with HTML5 and CSS3 (and jQuery and other libraries and frameworks) the client-side world has really taken off.

 

-- Russ Abbott
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Kinda interesting: a language that is very fast designed for science/math applications.
     http://julialang.org/

There is a cloud version to test with, and it can be used with C/Fortran libraries.

It handles parallelism as well.  They mention also having MatLab-like ease of use for mathematics.

     http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

As an aside, I really like the tendency in the mathematics/science community of providing very useable cloud based sites, often with "notebook" interfaces.  My current favorite is a JS matrix system: http://goo.gl/PIHuh

   -- Owen

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[Russ Abbott]

Kahn Academy is using the same technology for its new Intro to CS. Do you remember the Brett Victor talk of a few months ago? It was inspired by that.

 

-- Russ Abbott
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  Professor, Computer Science
  California State University, Los Angeles

  My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688
  Google voice: 747-999-5105

  Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/

  vita:  sites.google.com/site/russabbott/

  CS Wiki and the courses I teach
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

Although not a science/math site, it you want to play around with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, try jsFiddle.net. Here's one where I was playing around with cascading menus and animation using pure CSS3 (no JavaScript). Hover the mouse over the elements in the lower right quadrant. Here are two more simpler ones that fool around with cascading menus: http://goo.gl/lfgGP and http://goo.gl/jVrSz. 

The DOM is the hottest virtual machine. And you can change it on the fly. This has been around for a while, of course, but with HTML5 and CSS3 (and jQuery and other libraries and frameworks) the client-side world has really taken off.

 

-- Russ Abbott
_____________________________________________

  Professor, Computer Science
  California State University, Los Angeles

  My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688
  Google voice: 747-999-5105

  Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/

  vita:  sites.google.com/site/russabbott/

  CS Wiki and the courses I teach
_____________________________________________ 

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Kinda interesting: a language that is very fast designed for science/math applications.
     http://julialang.org/

There is a cloud version to test with, and it can be used with C/Fortran libraries.

It handles parallelism as well.  They mention also having MatLab-like ease of use for mathematics.

     http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

As an aside, I really like the tendency in the mathematics/science community of providing very useable cloud based sites, often with "notebook" interfaces.  My current favorite is a JS matrix system: http://goo.gl/PIHuh

   -- Owen

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