Notebooks are a fantastic teaching tool despite some valid criticisms in the slides. I teach Python to adult beginners including those with heavy Excel backgro

Notebooks are a fantastic teaching tool despite some valid criticisms in the slides. I teach Python to adult beginners including those with heavy Excel background. Beginners catch on quickly that you need to run all the cells once to get reproducible results. Worst comes to worse you just restart the kernel. With Anaconda I can start teaching immediately over all 3 platforms(Win,MacOS and there are even Linux Python beginners) without worrying about differing versions or troubleshooting installations. My students just git clone/pull my projects and start following around and experimenting themselves. What would be the alternative, give them black on white REPL? That said for personal projects that I do not intend to share I reach for my trusty text editor(VS Code is pretty good these days).