Exploring Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter Notebook is the perfect complement to Python. In practice, Jupyter Notebook allows you to intersperse your code with comments and images and anything else that might be useful. You can use Jupyter Notebooks for everything from presentations (a great replacement for PowerPoint) to an electronic laboratory notebook or a textbook.
Getting ready
If you have completed the installation instructions in the first chapter, you should be ready to tackle the following recipes.
How to do it...
These steps will get you started with exploring the incredibly powerful Jupyter Notebook environment. We urge you to go beyond this simple set of steps to understand the true power of the tool:
- Create a folder at the terminal, say test, with
mkdir test
, and move into that folder withcd test
. - Type
jupyter notebook
in the command prompt. You should see some text quickly scroll by in the terminal window, and then, the following screen should load in the default browser (for me, this...