[minimaxir]

Your comment implies that using a Jupyter notebook is a programming crutch for those who are not skilled. That's far from the case; Jupyter notebooks allow for logical separation of code and output, which is important for comprehension.

It also allows for reproducibility of results, which is arguably even more important, especially in the data science case.

[jypepin]

sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter

[edraferi]

Right, but what if you want to combine your test commands, their output, and comments? Share that with other people? Let them change things and re-run the examples in the same place? NOW you're cooking with notebooks.

[jypepin]

that's a fair point. I'll look more into the tool then :)

[eggie5]

no, you miss the point of the notebooks. You use it to tell story.

[StavrosK]

As a seasoned software engineer, I use it as a persistent, better-organizable shell. Even when working on a remote host, I forward its port and work there rather than open a shell on the remote machine, and I'm someone whose IDE is vim.

It's just much better when you can see all your functions in one place, edit a function far back and have the changes propagate to the last command you ran.

[jypepin]

makes total sense :)

[jypepin]

I went back and read more about notebooks. You are right, I totally missed the point, my bad :)

[lumpypua]

How do you get graphs and images in your terminal?

[jypepin]

I totally get the use for that, but I usually don't do this kind of things, which is why I said that I could see how amazing and powerful the tool is and don't see myself use it intensely