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What is Notebooks?

They are interactive work environments where you can take notes while writing code and see the results instantly.

Overview

Notebooks are workspaces where code and text are intertwined, used especially in data science and software development processes. When you run a block of code, you see the result right below, so you can follow the process step by step as you experiment. This structure is also very useful for explaining complex analyzes to others.

Analogy: It is like the laboratory notebook that a scientist uses while conducting his experiments; You keep both the action and the result of the experiment on the same page.

How it works

In this environment that runs on the browser, you write your code in areas divided into cells. When you press the Run button, the code is processed and the output is displayed right below.

Where it is used

It is used in data analysis, artificial intelligence model training and rapid code prototyping processes.

Commonly confused with

Its difference from standard code editors is that it allows you to run the code piece by piece and see the result immediately.

Frequently asked questions

Can people who don't know how to code use it?

It is usually for coding, but ready-made templates can be used for simple analysis.

Which is the most popular?

Jupyter Notebooks is the most widely used.

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