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    Lab 1: Jupyter Notebooks
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## Lab 1: Jupyter Notebooks

In this course we use a teaching tool called Jupyter Notebooks. Notebooks are special documents that combine instruction with code examples that can be executed directly in the Notebook itself. This means we can tell you how something works *and* show you how it works at the same time.

<img src='notebook-screenshot@2x.png' style='max-width:600px' alt='Screenshot of a Notebook'>

Notebook files are typically bundled with a .zip folder you'll download for lectures, labs, or exercises.

As your first example of a Jupyter notebook, we will use a notebook from
the [Course Overview and Big Ideas lecture](/lectures/lec_course_intro).

1. Click on this [lec01_course_intro.zip
link](/content/lectures/lec_course_intro/files/lec01_course_intro.zip) to
download a `.zip` file to your computer.
2. Extract the downloaded `lec01_course_intro.zip` file (usually an option in the right-click or
option-click menu; let us know if you need help with this) to reveal a
folder with a few files we will use during lecture. Note that some
computers may automatically unzip the file after you download it, and
some may show you the files without actually extracting them if you
double-click it.
3. In order to run lecture code, you
will need to open the `launchNotebook.py` file included in the zip using
Thonny, and then run it. Running that file should launch two windows in
your web browser, one allowing you to select and open other notebook
files (extension ".ipynb") and another with the lecture notebook open
already.
4. In this particular notebook, you don't need to write any code.
   You can just keep pressing the Run button to execute prewritten
   code to see how it works. (More typically you will be given some
   prewritten code and will have to flesh out skeleton code in some cells.)


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