https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/thomas-arildsen/Recent content in Thomas Arildsen on The CarpentriesHugoen-usMon, 18 Nov 2024 23:02:38 -0500https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/10/arildsen-fave/Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2017/10/arildsen-fave/<p><b>This post originally appeared on the <a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.</a></b></p> <h4 id="my-favorite-tool-is--the-jupyter-notebook">My favorite tool is &hellip; the Jupyter Notebook.</h4> <p>One of my favourite tools is the <a href="http://jupyter.org/">Jupyter notebook</a>. I use it for teaching my students scientific computing with Python.</p> <h4 id="why-i-like-it">Why I like it:</h4> <p>Using <a href="http://jupyter.org/">Jupyter</a> with the plugin <a href="https://github.com/damianavila/RISE">RISE</a>, I can create presentations including code cells that I can edit and execute live during the presentation to demonstrate the various aspects of Python that I introduce. It is a very good compromise between running scripts and typing in the command prompt on the projector screen vs. just showing static slides with code.</p>