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Introduction - Jupyter: 0.0.1 What Is Jupyter Notebooks?

Jupyter Notebooks is an interactive development environment that allows users to create and share documents containing code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. It supports multiple programming languages including Python. Notebooks contain code cells that can be executed and markdown cells for explanatory text. Kernels execute the code and store variables to enable reproducibility. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax that can be used in cells to create titles, lists, links, and other formatting. Jupyter provides both command and edit modes to control cell execution and formatting.

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Introduction - Jupyter: 0.0.1 What Is Jupyter Notebooks?

Jupyter Notebooks is an interactive development environment that allows users to create and share documents containing code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. It supports multiple programming languages including Python. Notebooks contain code cells that can be executed and markdown cells for explanatory text. Kernels execute the code and store variables to enable reproducibility. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax that can be used in cells to create titles, lists, links, and other formatting. Jupyter provides both command and edit modes to control cell execution and formatting.

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introduction_jupyter

September 7, 2020

0.0.1 What is Jupyter Notebooks?


Jupyter is a web-based interactive development environment that supports multiple program-
ming languages, however most commonly used with the Python programming language.
The interactive environment that Jupyter provides enables students, scientists, and researchers
to create reproducible analysis and formulate a story within a single document.
Lets take a look at an example of a completed Jupyter Notebook: Example Notebook

0.0.2 Jupyter Notebook Features


• File Browser
• Markdown Cells & Syntax
• Kernels, Variables, & Environment
• Command vs. Edit Mode & Shortcuts

0.0.3 What is Markdown?


Markdown is a markup language that uses plain text formatting syntax. This means that we can
modify the formatting our text with the use of various symbols on our keyboard as indicators.
Some examples include:

• Headers
• Text modifications such as italics and bold
• Ordered and Unordered lists
• Links
• Tables
• Images
• Etc.

Now I’ll showcase some examples of how this formatting is done:


Headers:

1 H1
1.1 H2
1.1.1 H3
H4

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H5 H6
Text modifications:
Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.
Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.
Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.
Strikethrough uses two tildes. Scratch this.
Lists:

1. First ordered list item


2. Another item

• Unordered sub-list.

1. Actual numbers don’t matter, just that it’s a number


2. Ordered sub-list
3. And another item.

• Unordered list can use asterisks


• Or minuses
• Or pluses

Links:
http://www.umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu
The University of Michigan’s Homepage
To look into more examples of Markdown syntax and features such as tables, images, etc. head
to the following link: Markdown Reference

1.1.2 Kernels, Variables, and Environment


A notebook kernel is a “computational engine” that executes the code contained in a Notebook
document. There are kernels for various programming languages, however we are solely using
the python kernel which executes python code.
When a notebook is opened, the associated kernel is automatically launched for our conve-
nience.

In [ ]: ### This is python


print("This is a python code cell")

A kernel is the back-end of our notebook which not only executes our python code, but stores
our initialized variables.

In [ ]: ### For example, lets initialize variable x

x = 1738

print("x has been set to " + str(x))

In [ ]: ### Print x

print(x)

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Issues arrise when we restart our kernel and attempt to run code with variables that have not
been reinitialized.
If the kernel is reset, make sure to rerun code where variables are intialized.

In [ ]: ## We can also run code that accepts input

name = input("What is your name? ")

print("The name you entered is " + name)

It is important to note that Jupyter Notebooks have in-line cell execution. This means that a
prior executing cell must complete its operations prior to another cell being executed. A cell still
being executing is indicated by the [*] on the left-hand side of the cell.

In [ ]: print("This won't print until all prior cells have finished executing.")

1.1.3 Command vs. Edit Mode & Shortcuts


There is an edit and a command mode for jupyter notebooks. The mode is easily identifiable by
the color of the left border of the cell.
Blue = Command Mode.
Green = Edit Mode.
Command Mode can be toggled by pressing esc on your keyboard.
Commands can be used to execute notebook functions. For example, changing the format of a
markdown cell or adding line numbers.
Lets toggle line numbers while in command mode by pressing L.

Additional Shortcuts There are a lot of shortcuts that can be used to improve productivity while
using Jupyter Notebooks.
Here is a list:

1.1.4 How do you install Jupyter Notebooks?


Note: Coursera provides embedded jupyter notebooks within the course, thus the download is not a require-
ment unless you wish to explore jupyter further on your own computer.
Official Installation Guide: https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
Jupyter recommends utilizing Anaconda, which is a platform compatible with Windows, ma-
cOS, and Linux systems.
Anaconda Download: https://www.anaconda.com/download/#macos

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Jupyter Notebook Shortcuts

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