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.

Microsoft's two new video series target beginner developers interested in using Python for machine-learning programs.

It also hosts it in Azure Notebooks and uses it to build end-user experiences like the Azure command-line interface (CLI). Microsoft considers Python an essential programming language.

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.

There's nothing quite like running Python code on your self-hosted Jupyter Notebook server ...

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.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

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

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

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.