Re: [Matplotlib-users] New tutorial (beginner level)

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Saturday, August 11, 2012, Fernando Perez wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Nicolas Rougier
> <Nic...@in... <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > By the way, I suspect the simple plot part may well suited for the
> ipython notebook !
> > I'll give it a try.
>
> Actually in the notebook it is now possible to enable exercises,
> hints, reveal-boxes, etc.  I'm cc'ing here Matthias Bussonnier b/c I'm
> not sure if he's on the mpl list.  He's one of our recent core devs
> who is behind a lot of our new JS magic in the notebook, and he's also
> a French scientist who will be at Euroscipy, so you guys could perhaps
> touch bases (I'm unfortunately not going to make it this year).
>
> Ultimately we'd like to make it very easy to write tutorials such as
> yours directly as notebooks, so that when used in the classroom
> students can work straight off them, and yet also publish then with
> clean and customizable HTML on the web like you did.  Lots of the
> pieces are in place, though not quite all yet :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> f


Fernando,

I have said this before, and it can't be repeated often enough.  The work
that you and your team has been doing the past few years with the notebook
is *already* revolutionizing how we teach python.  10 years from now,
programmers will point to this as the *killer* feature of python.

Kudos!
Ben Root