[IPython-dev] [IPython-User] IPython Notebooks and Active Learning (Matthew Brett)

[Doug Blank]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Doug Blank <doug.blank at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Being in the middle of writing similar notebooks, we found that using
>> header cells can be quite painful when it comes to moving sections around.
>> For example, if you want to move a section, one has to individually select,
>> press up/down, for all cells in a section.
>
>
> That is really a big pain point in managing any kind of complex/long
> notebook. Paul Ivanov recently protoyped out a solution for this:
>
> https://github.com/ivanov/nb-cccp
>
> I've been using it and it works fairly well, even though it's not really
> production-ready yet. We in the core team are really trying to get 3.0 out
> the door, so I'm not sure how much bandwidth Paul will have for this in the
> coming weeks. But it would be a great tool to finish up, because it's
> *super* useful.
>
> If anyone can pitch in to help Paul out with this code, it would be a
> great contribution that would make everyone's life a lot easier...
>

Yes, many problems can be solved by being able to select multiple cells,
and operate on them. One should be able to make many of the operations that
can work on a selected cell to work on a set of selected cells. This
extension is really only a temporary workaround for that kind of
functionality.

And, once there is a method to select multiple cells, it would be really
handy to be able to drag and drop those cells where you want them.

But, I am really looking forward to a server-based Jupyter setup, with
selectable kernels, so I don't want to distract from the big picture :)
With the set of extension tools we have now, we are confident that this
will work well for a writing course this fall.

-Doug


>
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>
> f
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