1. Get up and running with Julia. Either download and install an executable from http://www.julialang.org or use the JuliaBox cloud-based Julia server.

2. Learn some Julia basics by working through David Sander's Hands-on Julia notebooks. These pages from my undergrad class should help you get started

• installing-julia
• julia-notebooks
• notebook-workflow

The Hands-on Julia notebooks are

• 1-numbers-variables-and-basic-functions.ipynb
• 2-iteration-ranges-vectors-and-conditionals.ipynb
• 3-packages-and-visualization-with-pyplot.ipynb
• 4-vectors.ipynb
• 5-matrices.ipynb
• 6-interactivity-using-interact.jl.ipynb
• 7-functions.ipynb
• 8-funny-but-useful-syntax.ipynb

You will want to download these files then start them up within Julia, as described in the notes above, or upload them to JuliaBox and run them there.