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Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Jupyter notebooks. You learned what a Jupyter notebook is and why Jupyter notebooks are useful for problem solvers. This chapter showed how to install Jupyter notebooks on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Some specific operations with Jupiter notebooks were introduced:

Open a Jupyter Notebook
Rename a Jupyter Notebook
Write Python code in a Jupyter notebook code cells
Run Python code in a Jupyter notebook code cell
Write text in Jupyter notebook markdown cells
Use markdown syntax to produce formatted text, headings, lists, and tables
Save a Jupyter notebook
Download a Jupyter notebook in different file types

You also learned about special "magic" commands that can be used in a Jupyter notebook. The final section of the chapter detailed a couple of ways to get help when working with Jupyter notebooks.

Key Terms and Concepts

Jupyter

notebook

Jupyter notebook

kernel

iPython

IDE

text editor

markdown

execute

Anaconda Prompt

file browser

code cell

markdown cell

code block

inline code block

pipe character

hyperlink

LaTeX

HTML tag

.ipynb-file

.py-file

.md-file

magic commands

Python Commands and Functions

Jupyter Notebook Magic Commands

Command	Description
`%matplotlib inline`	Display plots in output cells
`%run file.py`	Run file.py and displays output
`%pwd`	Print the working directory file path
`%ls`	List contents of the current working directory
`%precision`	Set float point precision for pretty printing
`%whos`	List variables and types in the running kernel session
`function?`	Display help on a function
`function??`	Display source code of a function