iPython Notebook tutorial

iPython Notebook is an interactive scientific computing environment built on Python. It enables us to create documents combining text for reporting / story-telling and Python code for data analysis.

An iPython notebook can be run to render a beautiful report in its native *.ipynb format itself. If necessary, notebooks can also be converted to other publication formats such as HTML and PDF.

• Please note that iPython Notebook requires TeX for conversion to PDF

To understand iPython Notebook through a demo example:

• Launch your command-line terminal
• In the command-line terminal, launch iPython Notebook by the command ipython notebook; that will bring up a Jupyter web browser window at address localhost:8888/tree
• In the Jupyter browser windows, navigate to the [Your Course Repository Folder]/docs/Tutorials/ folder and open the "Python iPython Notebook tutorial.ipynb" notebook
• Inspect each "cell" (section in a rectagular box) of the notebook by double-clicking to see the source code, and running the cell by the key combination Ctrl + Enter