Session 1: basics for humanities research

Overview

In our first session, we’ll introduce some essential ideas for computational study in the humanities. Working in the Julia REPL (Julia’s interactive Read-Evaluate-Print Loop), we’ll organize different types of information in collections that we can query and transform.

Coding concepts in this session

  • Julia’s nouns: objects, values, types, and variables
  • Julia’s verbs: functions for working with objects
  • Collections of objects
  • Filtering and mapping collections

Review materials

Although we’ll work in the Julia REPL in our workshop, you can use this Pluto notebook to review, or to experiment with some self-correcting examples: