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I feel like this is going to be really great for people getting started with programming. A Big Fat Binary is really what early programmers need. Now imagine t
by singhrac 5y ago
I feel like this is going to be really great for people getting started with programming. A Big Fat Binary is really what early programmers need.
Now imagine that it comes with Postgres.app as well (with a little glue to turn it on via a button in the Jupyter UI, and automatic off when the server shuts down...), and the xeus-sql kernel.
If this gets halfway decent reviews, this is how I'm going to tell people to learn to program. No more needing to learn how the terminal works, explaining what a binary is, what an interpreter is, etc. All of that can come later.
- oolonthegreat 5y agoso true! I've been trying to figure out a way to get my social sciences student friend learn programming and I was dreading to install python/conda/jupyter ? on their computer. A single-click jupyter app with electron indeed sounds like a lifesaver.
- analog31 5y agoA fat binary might also be a good way to share a notebook with a non-programmer. To make a comparison, right now it's easy to share an Excel spreadsheet because "everybody" has Excel. But hard to share a Jupyter notebook because people have to get through the Python installation process. A simple one-and-done installer for Jupyter would make this a lot easier.