[IPython-dev] Developing a MOOC with IPython notebooks

[Anton Akhmerov]

Hi Andrew,

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Odewahn <odewahn at oreilly.com> wrote:
> Hi, Anton.  I've been working on something along a similar line: running a
> Notebook kernel in a Docker container via tmpnb and then connecting to it
> via a widget.  This presentation has some of the details:

I checked out the stuff. Looks very promising, but by the looks of it,
we won't be able to set up anything like this with reasonable
stability and within our time scale.
Is there a repository, or any other source to stay up to date on the
status of your work?

Anton

> http://odewahn.github.io/publishing-workflows-for-jupyter/#1
>
> Like Cyrille Rossant's work, it's still very experimental, but I've been
> pleased with the results so far.  The biggest issues have been around
> getting it running for version 2 of the Notebook (currently it only works
> for version 1) and getting the CORS headers set up for tmpnb.
>
> Andrew
>
> ps -- here are a few examples of the output.  (It only works in Chrome right
> now due to the CORS issues):
>
> http://sites.oreilly.com/odewahn/ipython-tutorial2/ch01.html
>
> http://sites.oreilly.com/odewahn/jem-test/ch01.html
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Cyrille Rossant
> <cyrille.rossant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anton,
>>
>> > * What are the best practices for keeping notebooks in git? We've
>> > found nbdiff, but it seems limited: for example it doesn't do anything
>> > to diff markdown cells. Is there a better way?
>>
>> I am currently working on a solution that basically replaces JSON
>> .ipynb by regular Markdown .md. You loose all metadata and outputs,
>> but you keep Markdown cells and the input of code cells. It is still
>> highly experimental and unstable, you'll find the code here:
>> https://github.com/rossant/ipymd/tree/support-atlas -- let me know if
>> you're interested in trying it out or contributing.
>>
>> > * What are the current options for creating rich graphic content that
>> > doesn't rely on having a live kernel? I know of mpld3, ipywidgets, and
>> > bokeh. For us ipywidgets seem like the best solution so far, but it's
>> > a pet project of Jake Vanderplas that didn't see any action in around
>> > half a year. So I wonder if there is anything more alive in that
>> > respect, that'd be great. Perhaps in v3?
>>
>> I'm also very interested in this use case, but as far as I know
>> there's nothing ready yet... We plan to support this in VisPy, but we
>> haven't started to work on it yet.
>>
>> I suppose you could work something out based on tmpnb.org -- you get a
>> temporary live kernel in the cloud launched just for you.
>>
>> Cyrille
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