Overview of Notebooks

What is a notebook?

• Notebook contains code, code results and documentation
• Supports many languages through kernels but Python, Julia and R are common.
• Interactive interpretter provides immediate results from your code
• Better annotations for communication compared with just code
• Additional functionality can be added using extensions and kernels

What are notebooks good for?

• Great for prototyping
• Great for teaching and learning
• Remote editing
• Mixing CLI and code as a powerful replacement for bash

What are notebooks bad for?

• Production quality code
  • Missing linting
  • Code completion can be better
  • Out of order executions
• Code reviews

Installation

Jupyter is included with Anaconda.