Resources for working with Julia

Installing Pluto

See the separate page on installing Julia and Pluto.

Running Pluto

• To start Pluto, in a Julia REPL, enter using Pluto; Pluto.run().
• To stop Pluto, at the same REPL prompt, enter Ctl-C (the control key + c). This will put you back at the initial julia prompt in your REPL. You may continue to work in Julia or use exit()` to quit the REPL.

Saving and opening notebooks in Pluto

See the separate page on saving and opening notebooks in Pluto

Using Pluto in the cloud

See the separate page on ways to use a Pluto notebook without running Pluto on your machine.

Introduction to the Julia language in Pluto notebooks

These Pluto notebooks are viewable here as HTML pages you can read in a web browser: save them to your computer in Pluto notebook format and open them in Pluto to run them live.

• the nouns and verbs of the Julia language
• collections of data (including the basic scholarly operations: filter and map)

Some common tasks illustrated in Pluto notebooks

• introduction to dictionaries in Julia
• file I/O: reading from and writing to files
• creating matrices in Julia: modelling a feature matrix

Other nifty stuff

• plot tree relationships using Mermaid flowcharts

Code with an AI

• juliahub’s AskAI

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Table of contents

• Opening and saving notebooks in Pluto
• Using Pluto in the cloud
• Preparing to work with Julia