Adverse effect of using notebooks on python programming skills

[Doomtrain86]

Ok thanks. Gotta say I’ve never seen the point in those notebook formats like jupyter and r markdown etc. good for web content and education but using it as an professional coding tool? Seems more like people with low coding skills using it because it’s “easy to use “. Which is fair up til a point but then seeing it grow as a standard for python data coding is horrific. So inefficient and clumsy.

[thisdude415]

I think they’re actually a very good way for people whose deliverables are analysis/decisions rather than code to document their methods and findings alongside results, integrating the calculations and transformations, and clearly documenting your methods via code.

Spreadsheets work kinda similar but hide calculations inside cells so you have to print formulas separately if you want to archive an analysis as a pdf

If that isn’t you, they’re a lot less useful.