jupyter_notebook_2_use.md

Using Jupyter Notebook

Launching the notebook

Navigate to the directory where you are working.

$ jupyter notebook

Once you launch Jupyter, it will open the notebook in your default browser.

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First Steps

• On upper right, select "New" and then "Python 3" (or your default version of Python)
• Click on "Untitled" at upper left and rename your notebook.

Running bash commands in a Jupyter notebook

You can run bash (or terminal) commands right from the notebook!

• Click on gray cell and type the following:
  !pwd
• Run the cell by typing: shift + return
• Click on next gray cell and type the below.
  !python --version
• Run the cell by typing: shift + return

Running python in a Jupyter notebook

• Click on next gray cell and type the below.
  print("Hello, World!)
• Run the cell by typing: shift + return

Other Helpful Commands

• Help Menu esc + h

• Save Notebook command + s

Cell Types

There are 3 cell types:

• Code
• Markdown
• Raw

You can use Markdown in Jupyter Notebook as well! Can add headers, blocks of text, etc.

Enabling matplotlib Graphics in the Notebook

Include the following two lines in your notebooks so the graphs are viewable.

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt