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+# SciPy 2024 Teen Track
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+This repository contains the materials presented on July 22‒23, 2024 at the SciPy Teen Track.
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+To follow the lecture and do the exercises, launch JupyterLite in your browser:
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+In JupyterLite, the slides and notebooks can all be found in the left-bar (which may be hidden; click the folder icon to reveal them). Each can be opened by double-clicking.
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+In a notebook, you can run a cell by clicking in it and pressing `shift-enter` or `control-enter` (or `command-enter` on Mac). If your Python session dies or needs to be restarted, select the last cell you were working on and "Restart Kernel and Run up to Selected Cell" from the "Kernel" menu.
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