From 05caf4f1bb64cd5a624ba4e64b2265f0fa65ab7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Labbe Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 08:44:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Copy edits. --- 00-Preface.ipynb | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/00-Preface.ipynb b/00-Preface.ipynb index 9a0f043..285f7f9 100644 --- a/00-Preface.ipynb +++ b/00-Preface.ipynb @@ -419,7 +419,9 @@ "\n", "This will open a browser window showing the contents of the base directory. The book is organized into chapters. Each chapter is named *xx*-*name*.ipynb, where *xx* is the chapter number. .ipynb is the Notebook file extension.\n", "\n", - "This is admittedly a somewhat cumbersome interface to a book; I am following in the footsteps of several other projects that are somewhat re-purposing Jupyter Notebook to generate entire books. I feel the slight annoyances have a huge payoff - instead of having to download a separate code base and run it in an IDE while you try to read a book, all of the code and text is in one place. If you want to alter the code, you may do so and immediately see the effects of your change. If you find a bug, you can make a fix, and push it back to my repository so that everyone in the world benefits. And, of course, you will never encounter a problem I face all the time with traditional books - the book and the code are out of sync with each other, and you are left scratching your head as to which source to trust." + "Appendix A contains information for how to install IPython and the Jupyter Notebook onto your computer.\n", + "\n", + "Admittedly this is a cumbersome interface to a book. I am following in the footsteps of several other projects that are re-purposing Jupyter Notebook to generate entire books. I feel the slight annoyances have a huge payoff - instead of having to download a separate code base and run it in an IDE while you try to read a book, all of the code and text is in one place. If you want to alter the code, you may do so and immediately see the effects of your change. If you find a bug, you can make a fix, and push it back to my repository so that everyone in the world benefits. And, of course, you will never encounter a problem I face all the time with traditional books - the book and the code are out of sync with each other, and you are left scratching your head as to which source to trust." ] }, {