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You’ll need to obtain two things to work with this tutorial.

  1. Be able to launch IPython Notebook
  2. Obtain the github repository for this workshop

Obtaining Tutorial Notebooks

  1. Clone the github repository for this workshop
  2. At the command line, cd to the 1-Python/notebooks.
  3. Type ipython notebook.
  • This should open a new tab in a web browser. (We suggest Firefox.)
  • To start a new notebook from scratch for today’s demo, click on New Notebook
  • You can see the notebook from the demo here http://tinyurl.com/au7e4jn

Useful IPython Notebook Commands

The most important one:

  • shift-Enter: run the current cell
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