Let us look at these two extensions that you need to install. With Visual Studio Code, you can host your Jupyter Notebook seamlessly into the editor and take advantage of its rich features like intellisense, code completion, linting and beautiful themes (because sometimes Jupyter Notebooks white canvas is boring, but you can also change the theme by reading this stackoverflow discussion). I would assume that Python is already installed and if you are using virtual environments, virtualenv is up and running. Jupyter Notebook - our main star for this blog post.

Visual Studio Code - it is free, it is great, it is awesome.

So before we go ahead and start F10-ing our code, some prerequisites:

Simple print is all we need, but as you dive deeper into the world of creating complex programs using the notebook, you need more than print.įortunately, Visual Studio Code has a nice way to do it. The most common reply I got was, “well, if you are stuck with Jupyter, just use print”. So when I began using Jupyter Notebook, one of my first questions was - How do I step through the code and debug this thing?. In my daily grind, most of my time is doing F10’s to a code and watch variables change value - the sad story of a software maintenance guy using Visual Studio. Debugging your code is a common activity for developers.

Visual studio code jupyter