JupyterLab vs Python Tutor
JupyterLab
jupyter.org
Python Tutor
pythontutor.comSide by side
| Figure | JupyterLab | Python Tutor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Coding Playgrounds | 9.1 (#9) | 7.5 (#99) |
| Founded | 2014 | 2010 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | JupyterLab is focused on interactive, exploratory computing and is suited to workflows such as data science, scientific computing, computational journalism, and machine learning. | The site describes uses for students debugging coursework, teachers explaining concepts, and programmers preparing for interviews. |
| Languages | Language support is provided through Jupyter kernels, allowing Python, R, Julia and other languages to run through the same interface. | The site supports Python, Java, C, C++, and JavaScript. |
| Purpose | JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data. | Python Tutor lets users write code in a web browser and see a step-by-step visualization as it runs. |
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In their own words
JupyterLab
JupyterLab is a web-based environment for interactive work with notebooks, code and data. Its workspace brings notebooks, text editors, terminals and custom components together in tabs and splitters. Code consoles act as scratchpads, and kernel-backed documents can run code in files such as Markdown, Python, R and LaTeX. It supports the .ipynb format used by classic Jupyter Notebook, and can view and edit formats including Markdown, images, CSV, JSON, HTML, LaTeX and PDF. Visualization libraries include matplotlib and Plotly; interactive plots or widgets may require additional packages. Extensions can add themes, viewers, editors, output renderers and interface controls, but can execute code in the browser, server and kernel, so only trusted extensions are advised. Real-time collaboration can be enabled with jupyter_collaboration. JavaScript and HTML outputs from notebooks created elsewhere remain hidden until the notebook is trusted. JupyterLab is free, open-source software under a modified BSD license, installed with pip or via a Homebrew command for macOS and Linux. It runs on Linux, macOS, the web and self-hosted systems.
Python Tutor
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