Intro to Jupyter Lab

We will attempt to explain everything as we do it, but here’s a quick cheat sheet to familiarize you with the most commonly-used shortcuts:

Together we will open up a new jupyter notebook and practice:

• Toggling between jupyter’s command and edit mode (Escape, Enter).

• Navigating up and down the notebook (arrow keys).

• Creating a new cell above (a) and below (b) the current one.

• Running code cells, either keeping focus on the current cell (Ctrl + Enter) or advancing it to the next cell (Shift + Enter).

• Pulling up function docstrings (Shift + Tab).

• Copying (c) and pasting (v) cells.

• Ipython “magic” functions:

  • Display all currently-defined variables (%whos).

  • Automatically reload imported files (%load_ext autoreload; %autoreload 2)