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It was be great to have a session devoted to notebooks and the magical things they can do.

Perhaps @jhunkeler could give a guest lecture on Astroconda. We have been getting some help calls from users switching over from SSBX or Ureka.

In the workflow for session 2, for Jupiter Notebook, a line should be added to telling users that to execute code in the notebook, they should press shift+enter.

I was wondering if others thought it might be worth the time to discuss slack?
I just heard about it as a discussion / help forum (?) for python but I don't know anything about it. And I don't have a smart phone, so I can't access it using an app.

While numpy-based python code can be quite fast, there are times when it really helps to go low-level and . Some areas I have expertise in include:

• Cython
• cffi
• The regular Python C API

Some things I do not know as much about but someone else might:

• pybind
• SWIG (here there be dragons! But it's been around for a long time)

Tyler Desjardins mentions that we should consider moving emails from help[at]stsci.edu to point to the web portal where possible and appropriate. For HST (or any non-JWST), it is https://hsthelp.stsci.edu . For JWST, it is https://jwsthelp.stsci.edu . Please update info in setup.py, setup.cfg, documentation, etc as appropriate.

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xref spacetelescope/hstcal#317

I thought these are recorded somewhere but I can't easily find it from this GitHub site.

We ran out of time today (31 January 2017), but I think it would be really useful to have a discussion about workflows. When are scripts most useful? iPython? Jupyter notebooks? At what point is it useful to switch from testing in a notebook to putting code into a script, or do you need to at all?

If you don't have enough topics in 2017, I can possibly cover a new package that is PySynphot re-incarnated as simply synphot (and stsynphot for HST specific stuff), which using Astropy models and is unit-aware (but not self-aware like astrobot).

http://synphot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

http://stsynphot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Jason Tumlinson demonstrated some pretty cool Bokeh stuff at winter AAS 2017. He said he would be happy to give a PyLunch about it. FYI.