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We will be using the MIT-developed Julia language for the computational part of the course, as well as the mini-projects. Julia is a powerful and efficient programming language for scientific computation. Using Julia will allow us to do very interesting things, even if you don't yet have extensive programming skills.

You can download Julia from the main website:

https://julialang.org/

https://julialang.org/downloads/

Platform-specific (Windows, MacOS, Linux/BSD) installation instructions are here:

https://julialang.org/downloads/platform/

We strongly encourage you to install it during the first week of classes, and start getting familiar with it.

Julia is used in several MIT courses, look here for documentation and a very useful cheatsheet:

https://github.com/mitmath/julia-mit

In there you also find a tutorial video by Prof. Steven Johnson (MIT-login required).

Another collection of Julia tutorials:

https://julialang.org/learning/tutorials/