Lab0 - Jupyter Notebook

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• The interactive session is a lot like the regular command line except you enter Python commands. Each line of Python code can be entered into the session or whole blocks can be copied in.

• command line was the primary way of running a computer. You can move around the computer's folders, create and edit files and run programs on the command line.

• IDEs, as the name implies - integrate the text editor and interactive modes of Python into one system. Here you will have an editor in which you type your python code and you then run it in a interactive Python session attached in the same window.

• upyter Notebooks, your work is divided into cells. Each cell can contain Python code or text. You can then run a cell using the play button in the toolbar above and it will run the Python code or if you've used the rich text format called Markdown it will compile the text in that cell

• "Markdown" is a really simple way to make formatted text. It is extremely common in the computer world. You can use a wide variety of special characters to format the text.

• so for clarity we will always refer to parentheses when we mean these: *(), square brackets when we mean these: [] and curly brackets when we mean these: *{}

• We call text in quotes a string - as in a string of characters. Strings are always surrounded by quotes