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One thing missing in comparison to most other textbooks is a set of problems to test the reader's understanding. The rotating and interactive figures are a very

One thing missing in comparison to most other textbooks is a set of problems to test the reader's understanding. The rotating and interactive figures are a very nice touch though. Along the lines of interactivity, maybe having a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would be a potentially great addition so that I could try problems near the area where I'm reading.

happy-go-lucky 10y ago
I thought the same thing. A set of problems to test the reader's understanding and a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would improve the interactivity.
- hardcore96 10y ago
  I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively. Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?
  - happy-go-lucky 10y ago
    Embedding Jupyter Widgets in Other Contexts than the Notebook: http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html Temporary notebook service: https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb Jupyter javascript plugin for static sites: https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe Also, you may want to consider trinket: https://trinket.io/ https://trinket.io/ http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-anywhere-on-the-web http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-a... For example, this book uses trinket for interactive Python: https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html I've just tried running: import numpy as np from scipy import linalg A = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]]) print(linalg.det(A)) at https://trinket.io/features/python3 https://trinket.io/features/python3 and it worked like a charm :)
    - hardcore96 10y ago
      Thanks for these great references! I will definitely have a look at them and see if I can use them for my purposes.

happy-go-lucky 10y ago

I thought the same thing. A set of problems to test the reader's understanding and a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would improve the interactivity.

hardcore96 10y ago
I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively. Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?
- happy-go-lucky 10y ago
  Embedding Jupyter Widgets in Other Contexts than the Notebook: http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html Temporary notebook service: https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb Jupyter javascript plugin for static sites: https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe Also, you may want to consider trinket: https://trinket.io/ https://trinket.io/ http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-anywhere-on-the-web http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-a... For example, this book uses trinket for interactive Python: https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html I've just tried running: import numpy as np from scipy import linalg A = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]]) print(linalg.det(A)) at https://trinket.io/features/python3 https://trinket.io/features/python3 and it worked like a charm :)
  - hardcore96 10y ago
    Thanks for these great references! I will definitely have a look at them and see if I can use them for my purposes.