[$] An introduction to the Julia language, part 1

Julia is a young computer languageaimed at serving the needs of scientists, engineers, and otherpractitioners of numerically intensive programming. It was first publiclyreleased in 2012. After an intense period of language development, version1.0 was released onAugust 8. The 1.0 release promises years of languagestability; users can be confident that developments in the 1.x series willnot break their code. This is the first part of a two-part article introducing the world of Julia. This part will introduce enough of the language syntax and constructs to allow you to begin to write simple programs. The following installment will acquaint you with the additional pieces needed to create real projects, and to make use of Julia's ecosystem.