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Coursera Jupyter Notebook System

1) The Coursera platform now features Jupyter notebooks that allow students to run code examples from the course lessons in their own browser window. This allows students to follow along with video lessons by running sample code interactively. 2) Assignments are also provided as Jupyter notebooks, with code stubs for students to fill in their answers. Students can submit their completed notebooks for grading directly from the platform. 3) In-video quizzes allow students to run code examples directly from the video timeline, exploring concepts as they are presented.

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Coursera Jupyter Notebook System

1) The Coursera platform now features Jupyter notebooks that allow students to run code examples from the course lessons in their own browser window. This allows students to follow along with video lessons by running sample code interactively. 2) Assignments are also provided as Jupyter notebooks, with code stubs for students to fill in their answers. Students can submit their completed notebooks for grading directly from the platform. 3) In-video quizzes allow students to run code examples directly from the video timeline, exploring concepts as they are presented.

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Coursera Jupyter Notebook System

[Transcript]

Before we jump into Python, I want to show you a couple of features of the Coursera platform. Here is our
course that I have logged in to. You see that there is three weeks. When we click on a week we have built
in Jupyter notebooks. Now these are a great way to learn data science and it's something new that the
Coursarians have added to the platform for us. When you see one of the notebooks you can click on it, you
can open the notebook into a new window and you can actually follow along exactly with everything that
we talk about. So you could actually run this code yourself just by selecting the code and hitting Shift+Enter,
and just run through it actually testing all of the different pieces of code. And so I think a lot of people will
use this in a split screen mode. So you take this window out and you watch the video in one window while
you actually walk through the code in another. I think it's a great addition. Jumping back, we also have
assignments that are built in. Jumping back to the course home page, we'll go to week two.

In week two we have an assignment built right into the jupiter notebook and this is great. So you can open
the jupyter notebook for assignment two. You get all of the questions provided to you directly. You can
open up the assignment, you can directly see the questions. There's stub code for your answers here. So for
instance for question one where you have to figure out how many gold medals there are. There's a function
written, answer one, and you just write in what your response is here. You can of course write any python
that you would like, in here, and so forth. So, this is a great way to do your assignments. When you've done
your assignment you just submit it, by clicking the submit button at the top. You can follow that URL to
see details about your submission. In addition, you can go to the course page, click on the programming
assignment, and look at your previous submissions. You can see here I've got a lot of submissions because
I've been testing these notebooks. But you can actually create a custom solution of your own, offline if you
want to do all the work with the Jupyter Notebooks on your PC, just upload that file as appropriate and
submit it for grading. So those are some of the features that

Coursera has added to the platform for us. Some of the other features are in-video-quizzes that allow you
to change the code as you're watching the video. So, we'll see an example of that here. When you're viewing
the video, you can see a number of the IPython notebooks. You'll see these yellow little markers on the
video timeline. These are in video quizzes. Something Coursera's added for us for this course are, live code
in-video-quizzes where you can actually try out what we're talking about directly in a quiz. So, here's an
example of that. If you want to run the code you just hit the Run button and it actually fires up Python on
one of Coursera's remote machines and tries it. And you can fool around with the method parameters for
instance. And rerun the code and explore the question that's been presented to you. And you just continue
with the video by hitting the Continue button. These are some of the new features, Coursera has added to
the platform to help people learn data science. And I hope you'll tell us what you think of the Jupyter
notebooks, and the new in-video quizzes.

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