Jean-Louis Fuchs: The essential IPython tutorials

The post recommends IPython videos for people who do not know it yet and says the tool was exciting even for a programmer with more than 15 years of experience. It says the notebook made it easier to document problem solving, reproduce checks, and verify them again with “Run All”.

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• Recommends IPython videos as essential viewing for newcomers.
• Says IPython felt exciting enough to “burst” the writer’s horizon.
• Mentions the IPython notebook as a better way to document how a problem was found and solved.
• Says the notebook makes it easy to rerun checks with “Run All”.
• Points to a short intro of about 40 minutes.
• Points to full tutorials of more than 3 hours.
• Lists tutorials on data analysis in Python with pandas.
• Lists a tutorial on IPython for interactive and parallel Python.