Hi Jake

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Jake Vanderplas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) Currently the exercises follow the format that Olivier set up in his
> tutorials, with a "skeleton" and a "solution" for each example script.
> On Fernando's suggestion, I'd like to move to using ipython notebooks
> for these examples.  I think it leads to a much smoother interface,
> especially the ability to try-out code snippets one-by-one, avoiding
> errors associated with running incomplete code.  This may lead to a
> problem: ipython notebook is still relatively new, and not everyone can
> read *.ipynb files.  Any input on whether I should remove the current
> skeleton/solution scripts in favor of ipython notebooks, or try to
> retain both versions of each example for broader compatibility?

In my mind, there are two (fairly small) pieces of the puzzle missing:

1) A notebook clean-up script, so that the repository stores text-only
diffs (unless you don't mind storing binary blobs of the plots).
2) A way of executing .ipynb files from the terminal, without firing
up a browser.

The nbconvert tools also need a little bit of fine-tuning still, but
they produce satisfactory output already.  None of these changes are
prohibitive, though.

Stéfan

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