Mastering IPython 4.0

Creating a notebook

Of course, no one writes a notebook in JSON – it is just used as a text format for persistence and interchange. The Dashboard can be used to create notebooks. In the upper-right section of the interface is a dropdown box that provides options to create new notebooks:

Note that a notebook need not use Python; in this case Hy and Julia are also options. Once chosen (we will use Python 3 for this example), a new tab is created in which the following web page is displayed:

Note the green outline around the cell. This indicates that the ...