I don’t usually write about my book writing while the book is in progress on my blog, but I know some readers probably wonder why there are times where I am not writing blog posts as regularly as I usually do. The reason is usually because I am deep into writing chapters for a book and if the book’s chapters don’t translate into good blog articles, then the blog itself doesn’t get a lot of new content.

Anyway, as you may know, I am currently working on a book called Jupyter Notebook 101 which I am currently planning to release in November. I have 7 of the planned 11 chapters finished, although I plan to go over the entire book and check it for errors once it’s done. I am hoping to get the other chapters done early so I can write a few bonus chapters too, but we will see how the writing goes. On the plus side, these latter chapters will make good blog fodder, so you can expect to see some interesting articles on the Jupyter Notebook appearing on this blog in the near future.

If you’re interested in checking out the book, you can download a sample from Leanpub.

There’s only two days left to join the Kickstarter for my latest book, Jupyter Notebook 101. It’s also one of the best times to help out as you get to help shape the book right now. I always take my reader’s feedback when writing my books into consideration and have added lots of extra information in my books because of their requests.

I am about halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Jupyter Notebook 101 and thought it would be fun to share my current tentative table of contents:

• Intro
• Chapter 1: Creating Notebooks
• Chapter 2: Rich Text (Markdown, images, etc)
• Chapter 3: Configuring Your Notebooks
• Chapter 4: Distributing Notebooks
• Chapter 5: Notebook Extensions
• Chapter 6: Notebook Widgets
• Chapter 7: Converting Notebooks into Other Formats
• Chapter 8: Creating Presentations with Notebooks
• Appendix A: Magic Commands

The table of contents are liable to change in content or order. I will try to cover all of these topics in one form or another though. I am also looking into a couple of other topics that I will try to include in the book if there is time, such as unit testing a Notebook. Some of my backers have also asked for sections on managing Jupyter across Python versions, using Conda and if you can use Notebooks as programs. I will look into these too to determine if they are within scope for the book and if I have the time to add them.

I am currently working on a new book called Jupyter Notebook 101 that I am planning to release in November 2018. I have put together a PDF that shows a rough draft of the first couple of chapters of the book along with an appendix. You can check out the PDF here:

• jupyternotebook101-preview

If you would like to pre-order the book or just learn more about it, you can do so on Kickstarter.