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So what are you looking at? It's a website generated with the [Jupyter Book package](https://jupyterbook.org/). Various extensions have been added to improve the student-experience, especially for technical topics!
The source files of this book consists of three parts:
1. A configuration file, `_config.yml`
2. A table of contents file, `_toc.yml`
3. Content for your book! Text-based files.
1. A configuration file to define functionalities, `_config.yml`
2. A table of contents file to list which files should endup in the book, `_toc.yml`
3. Content for your book! Text-based files which allows you to embed figures, videos, math and interactive elements.
```{admonition} Text-based files? yml? What is that?!
:class: tip, dropdown
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A book is made by by writing content in text-based files such as Markdown (`*.md`), Jupyter Notebooks (`*.ipynb`), etc. After that, software is used to "parse" these files and create the final book (e.g., Jupyter Book)
A hint of the key tools
- Python
- Git and GitHub
- A web browser
```{admonition} Comparing and Contrasting to LaTeX
Have you ever used LaTeX? It turns out there are a lot of similarities with this document system. Here is a quick list:
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4. Sometimes you can spend more time than you like troubleshooting "bugs" that turn out to be simple syntax errors.
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the rest is just
Let's see how these books are made!