Jupyter Notebooks

Aims & Outcomes:

  1. Notebook Basics

  2. Modal Editing

  3. Running Code

  4. Text Editor Features (Syntax Highlighting etc.)

  5. Tab Completion

  6. Object Introspection

  7. Working with the shell

  8. Working with Files

  9. First Python Program

The best way to learn about Jupyter Notebooks is to open one up and start using it.

Local Option

You can download the notebook from here

Then browse to your download location and load jupyter:

cd ~/Downloads
jupyter notebook intro-to-jupyter-notebooks.ipynb

Tip

If you want to grab all the notebooks for the workshop you can clone the workshop repository using git or you can download a zip of the repository which contains the notebooks folder.

The Repository:

https://github.com/QuantEcon/2021-workshop-rsit

and select the zip folder

../../_images/github-download-zip.png

Warning

The zip file will need to be downloaded again if there are updates

Cloud Based Option

You can launch the notebook