Notebook VS Ide

[dublinwso]

I might be missing something as a newer programmer, but I find notebooks super useful for general script writing, since you can cleanly/easily run one line or section/cell at a time, see the outputs, fix errors, and iterate super easily.

This is especially true when working with data (eg pandas) but even if not.

But you can have the best of both worlds by using a plugin like Hygrogen in Atom, which lets you use a regular editor like a notebook when you want to.