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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "This is a very short example showing how a ipython notebook tutorial could look like"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 2,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# The next three line tell python where to look for the code\n",
+    "# in case the package was installed  (e.g. make install) they are not necessary.\n",
+    "import os\n",
+    "import sys\n",
+    "sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# import our great new class\n",
+    "from sample.thinker import Thinker"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 8,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "currently I'm thinking of...\n",
+      "delicious\n",
+      "open\n",
+      "camel\n",
+      "camel\n",
+      "camel\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "# create a thinker and let it think\n",
+    "initial_nr_thoughts = 5\n",
+    "thinker = Thinker(initial_nr_thoughts)\n",
+    "thinker.think_out_loud()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 5,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "currently I'm thinking of...\n",
+      "toe\n",
+      "toe\n",
+      "delicious\n",
+      "open\n",
+      "toe\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "# our thinker will produce new thoughts every time we call it\n",
+    "thinker.think_out_loud()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 6,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "currently I'm thinking of...\n",
+      "camel\n",
+      "open\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "# we can also manipulate the number of thoughts it thinks\n",
+    "thinker.number_of_thoughts = 2\n",
+    "thinker.think_out_loud()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "That's it, what a great tutorial!"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": true
+   },
+   "source": []
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": true
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 2",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python2"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 2
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython2",
+   "version": "2.7.6"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 0
+}