Using the IPython notebook

Most of the material for this course is available as IPython notebook files on the course repository hosted on GitHub. If you are (not yet) familuar with using git, these files can be downloaded as a .zip file.

IPython notebook files contain a mixture of text and Python code that must be interpreted using the IPython notebook program. After installing this program (perhaps with the help of an instructor), you should run the following command inside a directory containing one or more .ipynb files:

ipython notebook

This will start an instance of the IPython notebook server on your computer. To use it, you must navigate to the address where the server is running. In my case the default web service is hosted locally at: http://127.0.0.1:8888.