Hi,
I have just installed Anaconda with Jupyter 7.0.8 and I have observed several differences with the examples represented in the documentation.
And other differences…Is there anyone who faced such issues?
Thanks in advance for your patience.
The current documentation still emphasizes the older ‘nbclassic’ software to a greater degree than the newer. I’m pasting a screenshot of the portion about the color of the cells for posterity only.
I’m sure this documentation will get updated soon as Jupyter Notebook 7+ becomes the prevailing interface. (Arguably, this is getting closer to be the case as the Anaconda Distribution currently includes it as the document-centric, ‘Notebook’ offering for Jupyter.) You can currently see the ‘Migrating to Notebook 7’ along the navigation bar now. Under there is introductory material for the current in-development Jupyter Notebook interface. What is stated there should match up with your experience now since you are using 7.0.8!
And feel free to contribute to making the documentation better.
Jupyter Notebook 7+ is built on the same components as the modern JupyterLab, and so things are different. See additional notes and resources about this shift in the Jupyter ecosystem over the last few months in the bottom part of my answer here.
One of the differences is the color and how the cells react when in the ‘Edit’ mode vs. ‘Command’ mode. For example, when making JupyterLab, a lot of thought went into the indicators for the cells, see here, and they were deliberately chosen to be different than the classic interface and more consistent with the modern web experience.
Keep in mind that there is going to be differences. A lot of old screenshots and videos won’t match up precisely with what you see. However, the newer JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook 7+ have more abilities and more ways to customize than the classic interface.
You could get the classic look and feel with nbclassic mode. (I would suggest as a new user, as you indicate here, that would be ill-advised. That interface is not in current development and will progressively become less consistent with Jupyter as a whole as the development of JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook 7+ progress. That said, it is possible.)
If you want try the nbclassic flavor now without installing anything on your own system, go here and click on the ‘launch binder’ badge.
When the session comes up, you’ll have a URL, something like this below, yet different in the specific combination of letters and digits in front of /tree:
https://notebooks.gesis.org/binder/jupyter/user/jtpio-35a72862c-31b61ebac2d9786-e5enffpe/tree
You’ll leave your combination intact and replace the /tree at the end of the URL with /nbclassic and hit enter to go to that page. What will then load will be the classic interface of Jupyter notebook, specifically now called ‘nbclassic’. You can make a new notebook and see the color highlights of the cells as you expect when you hit Esc, etc. (See the screenshot above.)
If you are new to Jupyter, I would advise against this option though. ‘nbclassic’ will become more and more out of step with current developments in Jupyter.
However, if you so choose to install it yourself…
If you are using Anaconda/conda and want to install nbclassic, see here.
The page on nbclassic covers installing those not using the more full-featured Anaconda/conda package manager.