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-# cookbook-2nd-code
+# Code of the IPython Cookbook, Second Edition (2018)
+
+This repository contains the Jupyter notebooks of the 100+ recipes of [*IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition (2018)*](https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/ipython-interactive-computing-and-visualization-cookbook-second-e), by [Cyrille Rossant](http://cyrille.rossant.net), *Packt Publishing*.
+
+This repository is read-only: the source files are on the [cookbook-2nd](https://github.com/ipython-books/cookbook-2nd) repository.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. [**Install** git](https://git-scm.com/downloads).
+
+2. [**Download and install** Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/download/): choose the **Python 3.6, 64-bit** version for your operating system (macOS, Linux, or Windows).
+
+3. **Open** a terminal (`cmd` on Windows).
+
+4. **Clone** the repository:
+
+```bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/ipython-books/cookbook-2nd-code.git
+$ cd cookbook-2nd-code
+```
+
+5. **Create** the `cookbook` [conda environment](https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#creating-an-environment-from-an-environment-yml-file):
+
+```bash
+conda env create -f environment.yml
+```
+
+6. **Activate** the environment:
+
+    * On macOS and Linux:
+
+    ```bash
+    source activate cookbook
+    ```
+
+    * On Windows:
+
+    ```bash
+    activate cookbook
+    ```
+
+7. **Launch** the [Jupyter Notebook](http://jupyter.org/install.html):
+
+```bash
+$ jupyter notebook
+```