Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

The idea of iterative development

A Jupyter Notebook consists of multiple code cells, each containing only a block of code that achieves a specific goal. The output of a code cell is displayed immediately after that cell in the notebook, making the process of debugging easier than in traditional programs. We will see more examples of code cells later in this subsection.

Furthermore, this incremental characteristic of Jupyter notebooks makes them considerably popular among data scientists and enthusiasts. For example, imagine that, during a process of exploratory data analysis, you notice that a dataset you have read in the middle of the program needs to be encoded in a different way. Now, in a traditional Python program, you would have to ...