jupyter (Notebooks)

• interactive computing
  • julia
  • Python
  • R

good for exploration, demos, and teaching
we recommend getting used to scripts

Google Colab for quick tests without installs
also GPU tests possible

• alternative: IPython

jupyter (Notebooks) on OzSTAR

• ellegedly you can use jupyter on OzSTAR
  • these are their instructions
  • I was not able to get it to work in my browser
  • works fine with VSCode
• launching a jupyter server in your browser

source <path/to/env>/bin/activate
pip3 install jupyter    #install if not installed
jupyter lab --no-browser --port=8888
#copy http://localhost:<portnumber>/tree/token=<token> into your browser

IPython

• interactivity of jupyter notebooks
• streamlined like standard scripts
• examples: run find ./content/ -type f -name "*.py" from project root

#%%cell1 (execute with `shift return`)
a = 1
print(a)
#%%cell2 (execute with `shift return`)
a += 2
print(a)