Prerequisites
đź“ą VIDEO
Jupyter Book is an open source project for building publication-ready books with computational files. The Turing Way is a community-led book project on learning computational skills, which is hosted online as a Jupyter Book. In this tutorial, you will learn about the collaborative nature of both the projects and create your own book using files and chapters from The Turing Way as examples.
- prior knowledge of working with GitHub repositories
- If you haven’t worked on GitHub, please take some time to check this beginners guide to GitHub (related video)
- basic experience working with Markdown files and Jupyter notebooks will be a plus
- This tutorial is written in MarkDown (getting started with MarkDown and Jupyter Notebook (beginner’s guide by Dataquest)
- some experience with Unix commands
- Jupyter Book is a command line tool, commands for which will by used in this tutorial in Jupyter Notebooks.
- Though not required for this tutorial, you can check this beginner’s friendly Unix training material by The Carpentries
- an optional module uses an example file with Python scripts
- Learners who use other programming language can replace Python script with short script or code snippets in programming language of their preference