Notebook Activities

Educational purpose

Notebooks vs packages:

As a general rule, example code and visualizations should be developed by students directly in the notebooks. Code for agents and other packages should be placed in the packages/solutions directory for students to edit in the respective Python files, then imported into the notebooks and unit tests for visualization and testing of their results.

A note on solutions:

Notebooks should generally walk through the knowledge required to implement some behavior on the Duckiebots, providing solutions to every notebook activity along way until the culminating activity in the final notebook. Students should then be editing package files to implement their work as directed by the notebook instructions, and the solution should be hidden in the separate solutions repository to enable evaluation.

Edit zones

The following table contains a list of the files and directories that you may need to update to implement this type of LX activity. If you would like a full walkthrough showing how to implement notebooks, skip to the next section.

Table 2 Edit zones

Feature	File Location	Purpose
Jupyter Notebook	lx/notebooks	Notebook files contain the knowledge portion of an LX, walking students through activities, visualizations, and development.
Agent Code	lx/packages	Python files for agent implementations should remain in the packages directory, with students filling in TODOs as instructed by the notebooks.

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