Creating a Blog Post using a Jupyter Notebook

This is somehow a “Hello World”-notebook, since its only purpose is to demonstrate how you can use a jupyter notebook to write a blog post using Quarto.

Somehow I did not find the key ingredient in the Quarto docs, but in this blog post: To get the necessary header data into the jupyter notebook, you need to add a RAW-cell at the top which contains the metadata. This is how this cell looks like in this notebook (and here is an hello-world example):

---
title: "Creating a Blog Post using a Jupyter Notebook"
author: "Christian Wittmann"
date: "2022-10-18"
categories: [blogging, quarto, jupyter]
image: "jupyter_logo.png"
---

Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) vs. Quarto (.qmd)

For my current use case of blogging I prefer the jupyter notebooks, and I will most likely write all future blog posts in jupyter notebooks because of the following:

My spell checking addon for VS Code does not support .qmd files.
With jupyter notebook there is no need to render the files, rendering is instant in jupyter notebook when you execute the cell.
Jupyter notebook is the same environment when I code, no need to adjust (even if only slightly)

Of course, all of this is very personal and a current snapshot of preferences (as a beginner) - let’s see if this solidifies or changes.

How is code rendered?

Let’s try out a little bit of code:

Hello World

print("Hello World!")

Hello World!

Calculations

a = 1
b = 2
c = a+b
print(c)

Plotting

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    
x = [1,2,3]
y = [2,4,1]
    
plt.plot(x, y)
    
plt.xlabel('x - axis')
plt.ylabel('y - axis')
plt.title('Sample graph')
    
plt.show()