Chapter 5
Working with Anaconda
IN THIS CHAPTER
Interacting with code files
Making cells useful
Configuring the user interface
Changing the code appearance
Anaconda provides a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in the form of Jupyter Notebook. In fact, you can perform every task in this book using just this one utility. That’s why this chapter focuses on Jupyter Notebook (simply called Notebook in most places). Unlike most IDEs, Notebook relies on a principle called literate programming that the “Defining why notebooks are useful” section of Chapter 4 describes. This chapter helps you understand how literate programming can help you become more productive when writing Python code.
As part of discovering more about Notebook, you see how to download your code in various forms and how to create code checkpoints to make recovering from errors easier. Working with files effectively is an important part of the development process. Chapter 4 shows only the basics of working with code files; this chapter fills in the details.
Chapter 4 also shows you a few things about cells. ...
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