How to open a Jupyter Notebook

Once you have python and the jupyter notebooks installed you are ready to open the notebooks using the following steps:

  1. First open up your Command Prompt (search for cmd on a Windows machine) or if you are on a Mac use your terminal (Spotlight search for terminal).
  2. Next in you terminal/command prompt type pwd and press enter (this will print your working directory)
  3. Take note of what file directory was displayed, this is where you should save your .ipynb files (or a folder containing your .ipynb files)
  4. Once your ipynb files or folder containing the files is in the location displayed from the pwd step go back to your terminal and type jupyter notebook and press Enter.
  5. After Step 4 you should have a browser tab open up with the Jupyter Notebook system running inside of it.
  6. Click on your Notebook (or go to your folder of Notebooks) displayed in the Jupyter Notbeook and it will open in a new tab with the Notebook you selected.
  7. You should now have successfully opened a Notebook file.

Command lines

1)Window :-Search cmd on the search bar.

cd -current directory
dir- contents of directory
cd location to be accessed - the directory you want to move in.
cd.. - move in previous directory

2)linux :-open terminal

  • pwd – current directory
  • ls-list of all directories
  • cd loction of new directory .
  • clear or cntrl
  • cd.. – back up the directoryl

when using to write the directory , we can use the tab key to autocomplete the directory name. If the tab key is not working it means ,it is not a direct directory .

python uses white space and indentation instead of curly brackets.

Mini conda is just abstract version of anaconda

There are 3 main types of environments

  • Text editor -General editor , can be customized with plugins and add-ons. light wight programmers
  • full IDE – designed specifically for python. eg – PyCharm and spyder
  • Notebook Environment -See input and output next to each other , they support inline markdown notes.

quit()- to exit the python in the terminal

Notebook uses the block system ,which mean they out runs block by block

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