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Colab is designed to mimic a desktop application called Jupyter Notebook (https://jupyter.org/). In fact, it's somewhat difficult to tell the two applications apart in the functionality they provide. Google Colab is the cloud version of Notebook, and the Welcome page makes this fact apparent. It even uses IPython (the previous name for Jupyter) Notebook (.ipynb) files for the site.

Even though the two applications are similar and they both use .ipynb files, they do have some differences that you need to know about. The previous edition of this book used Jupyter Notebook, but Colab offers the ability to compute anywhere on any device that sports a browser, so this edition of the book focuses on Colab instead. The following sections help you understand the Colab differences.