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 separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.

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.

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.

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

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