Using notebooks

Notes

• https://vknight.org/pfm/tools-for-mathematics/01-using-notebooks/introduction/main.html

Videos

1. Video demonstration of tutorial. - YouTube

A handout is available here.

Good markdown guide:

https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/

Further reading that might be of interest:

Why use Anaconda

If you want to read more about this here are some web resources:

• https://medium.com/@RustyComer/why-use-anaconda-524bb6765e4d
• https://medium.com/pankajmathur/what-is-anaconda-and-why-should-i-bother-about-it-4744915bf3e6
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/betkoj/why_use_anaconda/

Why use Jupyter

• Why Jupyter Notebooks Are So Popular Among Data Scientists: https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-jupyter-notebooks-are-so-popular-among-data-scientists/
• 10 reasons why data scientists love Jupyter notebooks: https://hub.packtpub.com/10-reasons-data-scientists-love-jupyter-notebooks/
• I don’t like notebooks - Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

Some further information on using Jupyter:

• https://jupyter-notebook-beginner-guide.readthedocs.io/
• https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/05/starters-guide-jupyter-notebook/

Other resources for LaTeX syntax.

This cheat sheet: http://tug.ctan.org/info/undergradmath/undergradmath.pdf

This web page is my recommended set of resources for learning LaTeX: https://vknight.org/tex/.

I only have a chromebook: how can I use notebooks?

There are a number of cloud based services that give access to scientific Python environments. This medium article gives a brief review of 5 of them: https://medium.com/@siddesh.001/top-5-online-free-notebook-ipynb-and-other-cloud-services-dbf9580d99e3 (this is dated 2018).

I recommend using cocalc: https://cocalc.com. The free tier does have some limitations but it should be sufficient to be able to work through this book.

I only have a tablet: how can I use notebooks?

There are two iOS apps that I am aware of for notebooks:

• Carnets
• Juno

Log of past relevant classes

10/04/24: Review of notebooks, anaconda, jupyter and markdown

In class today we covered the usage of notebooks. You can see a recording of the class here.

10/06/23: Review of notebooks, anaconda, jupyter and markdown

In class today we covered the usage of notebooks.