Jupyter interface for the GUI

[rht]

It would be great if we can use Jupyter UI widgets and components (instead of Mesa-specific UserSettableParams, ChartModule, etc), where we can have interactive simulation running inside a Jupyter session. With this, we can have easy-to-run executable examples using Binder/Colab. Currently, this is not doable? See also #1259.

[jackiekazil]

100% agree. There were some attempts for Jupyter integration in the past during PyCon US sprints, but they were attempts, but not completely finished & they are old -- so not sure how helpful they are now. However I wanted to dust off these PRs to provide thoughts in how others were thinking about it... but a lot of with Jupyter/Collab has changed since these were created.

#247
#469

[rht]

Progress update: I have simplified the non-straightforward code in #469. My prototype simply needs to be cleaned up.