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Post by collyw » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 3:30 PM UTC

sinab wrote: post #21

This is really exciting for the team! However I don't think that I am particularly sold on the notebook style of coding.. its possible that I simply haven't found a good use case for it, can anyone suggest an example where the notebook style outperforms a simple script based style? For reference, I use Matlab and Mathematica pretty heavily, and python in a text editor like sublime along with a terminal running ipytho…

Post by danielvf » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

Tenoke wrote: post #55

danielvf wrote: post #46

I'll be teaching a group of nine and ten years olds to code. I'm planning on using Jupyter. What I'd really like to do is make a multiplayer naval game, with each player controlling their ship from their own notebook. Players would start out by running commands like fire(range=400, bearing=120) right from a cell, but would later be able automate their ship - for example, pick the nearest enemy, get the range, and plu…

The simplest (and still educational) way would be to have the stuff in the different cells as functions, and to collect all the functions that should be re-run in a single cell. To do it more properly, however, you can have a post_save_hook for the whole notebook, which runs the code from whichever cells however often you want outside of the notebooks. Of course, this way you wont see the output in the notebook.

    for ship in myShip.radarScan():
        if ship.is_enemy:
            display([ship.type, ship.range, ship.bearing])

Post by cup-of-tea » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 3:35 PM UTC

rerx wrote: post #39

cup-of-tea wrote: post #23

So I can now use a decent text editor (emacs) to edit Jupyer notebooks? Great! I do wish it was possible to interleave languages like with org-mode, though. I've yet to find a literate programming/notebook format I'm truly happy with. Edit: oh.. I misread. It doesn't support using external editors. All I want is some way to edit those text boxes with another program. I can't do any serious work in a web browser. It's…

Have you tried "EIN" in Emacs? https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook I have used it quite productively for a while, but at the moment have mostly moved back to the browser for my notebooks. I can recommend to collect larger functions in a separate source file (for Emacs editing bliss) which you import to the notebook. [import helpers; reload(helpers)]

Post by shusson » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

Quenty wrote: post #30

If you like Juypter, Google colabs has a google-docs style juypter notebook that’s quite good. It’s nice for collaboration. https://colab.research.google.com/notebook

Post by Tenoke » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 3:42 PM UTC

danielvf wrote: post #63

Tenoke wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simplest (and still educational) way would be to have the stuff in the different cells as functions, and to collect all the functions that should be re-run in a single cell. To do it more properly, however, you can have a post_save_hook for the whole notebook, which runs the code from whichever cells however often you want outside of the notebooks. Of course, this way you wont see the output in the notebook.

Yeah, output right in the notebook is important. I'm wanting them to be able to do something like this in a cell: for ship in myShip.radarScan(): if ship.is_enemy: display([ship.type, ship.range, ship.bearing]) And then have that cells results always showing the current data as they play the game.