Review of notebooks, anaconda, jupyter and markdown

In class today we covered the usage of notebooks.

You can see a recording of the class here

We started by doing a quiz (I’ll be doing these every week – more about this later) where we went over:

• The programming language we are using in this module: Python.
• What a markup language is: a tool to write content and describe how it is to be displayed at the same time. This week we saw some basic usage of Markdown and LaTeX
• What distribution of Python we are using: the Anaconda distribution which includes not only Python but a number of useful libraries for mathematics.
• What interface we are using to Python: the Jupyter notebook interface.

Next week we will be starting to do some symbolic algebra, if you are interested you can start reading about it here

Regarding the quiz

On my way to class this morning I thought I could offer a prize of a text book to the winner of the quiz. I cannot do that every week so instead I will keep track of who wins every week (I’ll do a quiz like this every week) and the overall leader can pick a text book.

The overall leader will be decided by total number of winning weeks (and not total points). Congrats to Ben who has 1 win after this week.