How to save, share and retrieve Jupyter notebooks

Hello, bozo99 here.

I’m just an old geezer trying to expand my computer and computational horizons.
Generally familiar with Python, and used to working with the “idle” user interface.
Now trying to learn how to use Jupyter, which is new to me.

Have written a couple of .(very) elementary Jupyter notebooks.
I’m using Windows 10, and am NOT familiar with Linux or other operating systems.

My Questions are:
How do I save a Jupyter notebook to disk, and then get it back into (reopen it in)
Jupyter?
How do I “share” a Jupyter notebook with (say) one of my grandkids so
they can open and use it?

Would really like some way of saving, retrieving, and sharing Jbooks (Jupyter notebooks) w/o having to go thru Github.

RTL (Ready To Learn)
Thanks

How do I save a Jupyter notebook to disk

Jupyter notebook is nothing else than file with .ipynb extension. You can manage it like Python programs (you store it as .py file and run through terminal).

and then get it back into (reopen it in) Jupyter?

To run file you need to hae jupyter notebook installet (there is plenty of tutorials how to install it on Linux/Windows/Mac), and then you only type jupyter notebook into terminal opened in directory where your .ipynb file is and that’s it.

If you don’t want to do all this staff you can use one of online tools e.g. google colab

How do I “share” a Jupyter notebook with (say) one of my grandkids so they can open and use it?

You can send them .ipynb file with notebook (through e-mail / google disc/ some other online disc) or use google colab and send them a link. I recommend second option very much.

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