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by smortaz 3408 days ago
A more recent Microsoft offering for trying F# (or Python, R) is:

https://notebooks.azure.com

Click on the Intro to F#. Or try the user contributed notebook:

https://notebooks.azure.com/library/HorsesForCourses

[msft]

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Literate Programming with Notebooks is where no other .net based language comes close to F#. I will spend more time on F# notebooks, this is great!
Check out Xamarin Workbooks* for the C# equivalent.

(*): https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbook...

Sadly I'm neither able to clone or open an existing clone for the F# notebook :(
Hmmm... when I click on the Horses link, I see its 3 notebooks, with a blue clone & run button. When clicked, I get prompted to sign in (requires any msft account like outlook, xbox, hotmail, ...). Once you sign in (or create an account), you'll end up in Docker/Jupyter instance with the 3 notebooks. Clicking on the first one and doing a Run All, should give you:

http://imgur.com/a/JgcqP

What happens when you click the Intro to F# sample on the front page? It should render the notebook and if you clone, it should prompt to sign in as above. Hope this helps.

When I choose to connect to an existing notebook nothing happens. When I choose to clone I get to the login screen by clicking the login button does nothing :|

EDIT: I'm now able to login. It brought up a little redirect modal after entering my user name which due to my typing was apparently getting canceled. The notebook load, but I get now chart.Plot output.

I haven't used jupyter notebooks much. They seem cool, but not as cool as light tabels insta-repl.