Getting Started

Getting Started

Julia installation is straightforward, whether using precompiled binaries or compiling from source. Download and install Julia by following the instructions at https://julialang.org/downloads/.

The easiest way to learn and experiment with Julia is by starting an interactive session (also known as a read-eval-print loop or "repl") by double-clicking the Julia executable or running julia from the command line:

$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.5.0-dev+2440 (2016-02-01 02:22 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit 2bb94d6 (11 days old master)
|__/                   |  x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0