BOF: Julia in the classroom

This breakout session is intended for people who teach or plan to teach Julia language to share their experiences and best practices. Authors of books about Julia are also welcome to join the discussion how their materials can be best used to support teaching.

When you start teaching Julia there are several natural questions that you typically have to answer, like:

• what are essential parts of Julia language and ecosystem (type system, multiple dispatch, libraries, tooling) that students need to learn to get started with using it;
• what teaching materials to use; what are exemplary problems for teaching;
• what is an effective sequence of topics to cover; what concepts are difficult to understand and how to explain them;
• how to best explain to the students why it is worth to learn Julia.This break out session invites all people who teach or plan to teach Julia to discuss about those and similar topics. Willing participants are invited to prepare a short talk or example that is worth sharing. If you would want to propose to present some longer topic please contact the session organizer (Bogumił Kamiński)[http://bogumilkaminski.pl/about/] to make sure that it can be properly planned.

An ultimate objective of this breakout session is to prepare a material summarizing the conclusions from the discussion that would be openly shared to the community after the conference.

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