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Re:Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python by satellitec4t on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:34AM (#15946110)
Why is this all contained in one big json document? Am I that out of touch with modern coding??
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Re:Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python by theuly on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:43AM (#15946150)
What the author wrote is a IPython / Jupyter notebook [0], which is implemented as a JSON document [1]. The notebooks are pretty much markdown with runnable code blocks in between.

Jupyter notebooks are popular in the data science / Python communities to explain concepts, for examples see here [2].

[0] https://jupyter.org/

[1] https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/notebook/nbformat.html

[2] https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...

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Re:Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python by tree_of_item on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:40AM (#15946137)
It's a Jupyter notebook: http://jupyter.org/
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Re:Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python by haraldooo on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:45AM (#15946161)
It’s a Jupyter-Notebook (http://jupyter.org/)
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