Microsoft provides a library of notebooks to help you learn other tools, including using Python with its CNTK deep learning framework and building and training Azure ML models.

Azure Notebooks currently support Python 2, Python 3, R, and F# kernels. For some reason, SQL is not listed in the online documentation, but I have installed and used both a Spark and SQL kernel.

In all cases the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK is a required additional component. Azure Notebooks is a Jupyter Notebooks service that is hosted in the Azure cloud.

The SDK improvements give improvements to Azure Notebooks. These can be installed anywhere you can run Python.

Microsoft Azure Notebooks is part of a growing movement to make learning complex programming concepts easier.

PyTorch 1.2 was released earlier this month. The deep learning framework has now been integrated with some Azure services by Microsoft, along with helpful notes as to its usage on the cloud platform.

The notebooks come pre-packaged with support for the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK and run in what the company describes as a “secure, enterprise-ready environment.” ...

Microsoft Azure Notebooks is available free of charge and represents yet another way for people to learn programming and data science outside of traditional schooling.