From the course: Python Scripting Using the ArcGIS API for Python

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Creating a notebook and using Markdown cells

Creating a notebook and using Markdown cells

- [Instructor] ArcGIS Notebooks is the perfect environment for scripting with the ArcGIS API. I want to take a minute to show you the important bits about writing code in the ArcGIS Notebooks interface here in ArcGIS Pro. If you're already familiar with Jupyter Notebooks and with using Markdown language, you can skip this video and move on to the next one. In ArcGIS Pro, I open a new notebook from here in the Analysis ribbon, and then I go to Python and Python Notebook. The notebook is going to show up over here in your catalog. I can also get a new notebook from here on the Insert ribbon and New Notebook. I can even right click on the Notebooks folder over here in Catalog and choose New Notebook from here, if I've at least created one notebook in the past so that I have this Notebooks folder. So it doesn't matter which way you create the notebook, there are various ways to get one, but once the notebook is created, this is where I can start typing code. When I have a new notebook, I…

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