Can someone point me to some explanation why I would use a notebook rather than a terminal session? Someone has gone to a lot of work to make the notebooks, and I don't understand why, as I like to be able to paste a sage file, or parts of it, into a "verbatim" environment in TeX so a reader could duplicate the computations. Is it that a notebook can be used to make an interactive web page?
The notebook is all about the web. Everything you can do at the terminal, you can do in the notebook. And _vice versa_. Some things, are just more nicely shared via a notebook. See http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ (not Sage, but close enough).
Other good reasons to use notebooks :
Personally, I always use the terminal for personal or one shot computations, and Sage inside an IPython notebook for collaborating and sharing.
This question should attract a number of different answers. My take:
Similar closed-source programs have (very successful) notebook-type interfaces, and people find it very useful for organizing and presenting. So we created one too, for those who like that. (Which is a lot of people.)
Asked: 2015-03-31 17:05:44 +0100
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