# What is Jupyter
Jupyter is an open-source interactive computing environment that was originally part of the IPython project and later developed into an interactive computing tool that supports multiple programming languages. The name "Jupyter" is an abbreviation for the three main programming languages, namely Julia, Python, and R, reflecting that Jupyter was originally designed for these three languages.
The core of Jupyter is the Jupyter Notebook, which provides a web-based interactive interface where users can write and run code, create documents, visualize data, and share notebooks with other users. Jupyter Notebook supports multiple programming languages, including Python, R, Julia, etc., and can support more programming languages through kernel extensions.
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