Using Jupyter Notebook to learn programming interactively

I have recently setup Jupyter Notebook to work with Python3. Following are some use cases of the notebook in action.

Python

When trying out the networkx and pydotplus library, a Jupyter notebook running the ipython kernel is really handy to inspect the graphs visually. The "%%svg" magic command will render the cell as an svg literal!

Once can also use the code snippet below to embed an image

...
svgFile = path.Path('/home/sgoda/Desktop/nx_dg_3.svg')
from IPython.display import Image, HTML
HTML(svgFile)

As you can see from the image below, Jupyter notebooks also have interactive widgets (http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io)! They came real handy recently when I was learning the rxpy library.

Javascript

References

• http://jupyter.org
• http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io
• https://blog.jupyter.org/2015/04/15/the-big-split/