[kwlug-disc] Jupyter Notebook

[Chris Frey]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:23:39PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with Jupyter Notebooks?  I keep hearing
> good and bad stuff about it and I'm confused as to whether or not to
> install it.  I'm taking some online courses and they insist that I do my
> work in Jupyter Notebooks.  (that in itself is a hint to take a different
> course, but I'm willing to humour them for now)

It's a fairly impressive mix of documentation and live-edit python.
Perfect for teaching, and documentation with extremely easy to use
examples.

The main risk I can think of is that you may be running "untrusted code"
in the examples, but usually they are simple enough to understand
before running.  Put it in a VM if you're concerned.

- Chris