02b Jupyter notebooks, JupyterLab, and Markdown

This video introduces Jupyter notebooks. This semster, you will write and execute your Python code in Jupyter notebooks. Jupyter notebooks allow you to insert plain and formatted text alongside your code. They are living documents.

Jupyter notebooks run in an app called JupyterLab. This video shows you how to launch and use JupyterLab. 

To format text in a Jupyter notebook, you will use a language called Markdown, which is a subset of HTML. This video demonstrates some basic Markdown.