.NET Interactive notebooks are usable in flexible environments including GitHub Codespaces

[cartermp]

Summary

As a student or teacher, I can use .NET Interactive notebooks in my preferred environment for learning tasks.

Details

.NET Interactive notebooks must be available:

• Offline and on anyone's personal machine
• Installed in a lab environment that students can connect to
• Hosted in an online service, such as GitHub Codespaces or Binder

Critically, GitHub Codespaces is likely to be an essential environment for notebooks to be hosted and executed. This is because it supports a:

• Git repo-focused workflow so that there is a single source of truth for content: a git repo
  • Fork -> Work -> Submit pipeline
  • Ability to integrate CI into the equation, such as CI-based grading with nbgrader
• Zero (or minimal) installation requirements for students and teachers
• Reproducible and reliable environment to execute notebooks
• Freedom to move from online to offline expereinces without disruption or change of paradigm
• All dependencies needed to do an exercise (e.g., do data analysis and graph results) can be specified entirely within the notebook itself

[mairaw]

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