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The new Jupyter Book

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Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by amrrs »

This is a really good move. A lot of people have been offering Jupyter Notebooks along with their Books. This should bring down the effort in getting the book out. An important note though, R world has for something called 'bookdown' for quite sometime and many R developers have used it to write books. https://bookdown.org/

The only worry is that now a lot of data science enthusiasts are going to try to publish their Jupyter Notebooks collection as Kindle books!

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by mobilio »

amrrs wrote: post #2

This is a really good move. A lot of people have been offering Jupyter Notebooks along with their Books. This should bring down the effort in getting the book out. An important note though, R world has for something called 'bookdown' for quite sometime and many R developers have used it to write books. https://bookdown.org/ The only worry is that now a lot of data science enthusiasts are going to try to publish their…

That's nice!

For first time i've seen huge resource about R.

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by egeozcan »

I wish that the notebooks supported Typescript or C# or something I'm more familiar with, out of the box.

For C# I have LinqPad, which I'm a huge fan of but never discovered something with similar functionality for typescript.

I've seen some open source kernels[0] but I'm not sure about the quality, did anyone try them? Deno core in Jupyter would have been amazing.

[0]: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by sbelskie »

egeozcan wrote: post #4

I wish that the notebooks supported Typescript or C# or something I'm more familiar with, out of the box. For C# I have LinqPad, which I'm a huge fan of but never discovered something with similar functionality for typescript. I've seen some open source kernels[0] but I'm not sure about the quality, did anyone try them? Deno core in Jupyter would have been amazing. [0]: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter…

For C#, have you seen .NET Interactive[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by larrywright »

In my job I often have to figure out how to solve a problem involving talking to an API or manipulating data in some way and then sharing that information with others. Jupyter notebooks make that so easy, it’s the first tool that I go to. Being able to mix documentation and code, as well as visualizing output, aligns perfectly with the way I think.

I’m not entirely sure I have a use for this book feature, at least not yet, but this is a cool addition.

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by ehsankia »

It's honestly amazing how far this thing that started as ipython has become. From expanding into notebooks, to multiple languages, to huge collaborative web-hosted coding applications. I've been a huge fan of iPython from the very start and I'm always amazed by seeing this project grow.

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by heisenzombie »

I love the Jupyter ecosystem but it's frustratingly messy sometimes. There's already "nbconvert" built in to Jupyter (lab), built on Pandoc. It's extremely under-documented but it's possible to extend it with templates to generate arbitrary outputs. I've done this to directly generate branded PDF reports via latex. Jupyter Book has a lot of overlap with this feature, but rather than building on nbconvert/pandoc, it starts from scratch with Sphinx.

Oh well! Keeps things interesting, I suppose!

Re: The new Jupyter Book

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Post by chrisjsewell »

heisenzombie wrote: post #8

I love the Jupyter ecosystem but it's frustratingly messy sometimes. There's already "nbconvert" built in to Jupyter (lab), built on Pandoc. It's extremely under-documented but it's possible to extend it with templates to generate arbitrary outputs. I've done this to directly generate branded PDF reports via latex. Jupyter Book has a lot of overlap with this feature, but rather than building on nbconvert/pandoc, it s…

nbconvert/pandoc is very limited in how it can be extended because it only relies on jinja templating rather than a proper AST. You couldn't achieve a lot of the things that sphinx/jupyter book can now do with that. Trust me I know because, before starting work on https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser I used the nbconvert/pandoc approach to create https://github.com/chrisjsewell/ipypublish ;-)
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