[takluyver]

> ultimately if your goal is to create a software product, learning good coding skills in an IDE is a much better path

IPython developer here. A lot of the use cases for notebooks are where you're not creating a software product. It's useful where the product you're really after is a scientific result, some plots, or the like, along with a description of how you got that. And where the product is a presentation, a demo, or documentation.

Of course, as you're doing that kind of thing, code that starts out in a notebook often becomes something you want to reuse, and you therefore move it out to an importable module. We are interested in ways to make that process more fluid.

[pgroth]

This is one thing I struggle with. I usually start in a notebook and then eventually want/need to port to a module environment. It would be nice if there were some guidelines or support for this sort of transition. Any pointers?