[IPython-dev] Developing a MOOC with IPython notebooks

[Anton Akhmerov]

 On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:39 PM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just (seconds ago) added the ability to publish IPython notebooks
> from SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com).

Actually I should've considered SMC. Looking at the FAQ, it seems that
it is suitable for most our needs, the only unclear thing being the
software setup.
Basically in addition to the regular scipy-stack we also need the
kwant package (http://kwant-project.org), which is in pypi.
Unfortunately it also requires the MUMPS linear algebra package, so
overall the installation process would be somewhat involved I imagine.

Do you know if we would be able to set it up, so that the course users
wouldn't have a need to install Kwant separately?

Some extra questions: Is it possible use single cell servers with
custom code pre-executed? Is it possible to embed those in an IFrame?

Thanks,
Anton

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:53 AM, 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:
>>
>> 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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