Much of the material online, even the Econ focussed stuff, spends a lot of time on "computer science", which I think scares many people. I think more people would be persuaded by simple side-by-side code examples, similar to stata2r.github.io - ThreadSky

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pdavidboll.bsky.social • 104 days ago

Much of the material online, even the Econ focussed stuff, spends a lot of time on "computer science", which I think scares many people. I think more people would be persuaded by simple side-by-side code examples, similar to https://stata2r.github.io/

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pdavidboll.bsky.social•104 days ago

Specifically, one thing I struggled to find good info on was how to organise code across files. In Matlab, you have a main script that calls a bunch of functions that are defined in separate files. I couldn't find much about how best to do this in Julia, maybe because it's obvious to programmers.

floswald.bsky.social•104 days ago

yeah I would have said the rule "one function = 1 m-file" is a restriction rather than helpful (100 functions => 100 files 😵). You can organize code in python, julia and R in whichever way you want across files. maybe some helpful stuff here https://floswald.github.io/NumericalMethods/

walkingrandomly.bsky.social•104 days ago

The one function => 1 m-file restriction went away a long time ago.

floswald.bsky.social•104 days ago

that's progress!

pdavidboll.bsky.social•104 days ago

I agree! I was just describing an example of the type of problem that normal people without much programming experience outside Matlab and Stata run into.

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