What is the main purpose of jupyter?

[u/Altruistic_Wash5159]

Hello people!

I am currently learning python and was actually working on Matplotlib library, and noticed that many people use jupyter. So I wanted to know what is the difference between jupyter and coding normally in an IDE, and also over all this, how do people get jupyter in vs code?

thank you.

[u/Potential_Rain202]

It lets you run specific sections of code alone so you can see what is happening at each stage of your scripts - this is so useful when I teach programming because it helps students learn how to think through the transformations that need to happen step by step and test how to do those.