Move to Jupyter notebooks

[colinsauze]

The lesson currently uses Spyder and raw python. It would be better suited to using Jupyter notebooks.

[vinisalazar]

Hi @colinsauze. I am interested in working on this lesson, and I guess this is a good starting point.

However, I was having some difficulties building the lesson, and would like to submit a PR addressing that before I work on this issue. I DMed you on the Carpentries Slack, if you happen to use that channel.

Thanks!
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[bkmgit]

Jupyter notebooks are quite resource intensive to run so may not be appropriate for everybody. Many of the Carpentries lessons use a format where code snippets are used, without imposing formatting. This allows easy inclusion of a variety of programming languages within the same framework, and also enables participants to choose the programming environment they want.

[vinisalazar]

@bkmgit that makes sense. The issue1-jupyter-notebooks was created to evaluate how the lesson would be with Jupyter Notebooks.

I do think that lessons can be relatively platform-agnostic; however, it is good to have a recommended way of running them. This is why changes that address this issue can be restricted to the setup.md file, and not the actual lesson episodes.

[smangham]

I'm just going through this in prep to run it in a few weeks, and noticed it's definitely structured in a way that works best for notebooks. Would you like me to give it a stab at adding a "Setup for a notebook" section? I was going to submit a PR for the setup anyway as some of the prereqs aren't listed there (Seaborn, PyQT5 if you're on WSL).