- added README to examples and pointed automated opening setting to i…

…t to not open Jupyter directly as a plain text

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "customizations": {
     "codespaces": {
       "openFiles": [
-        "examples/quickstart.ipynb"
+        "examples/README.md"
       ]
     },
     "vscode": {

.gitignore

@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@ htmldocs/
 *.so
 *.pyd
 .DS_Store
-smallTest.ipynb
+smallTest.ipynb
+# Example Output Files
+examples/gridForAda.txt
+examples/gridForJulia.npy

examples/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Quick Start
+
+This is a quick start guide to get you up and running with the nimplex software. If you are running it in the Codespaces environment, you should now open the 
+[**`quickstart.ipynb`**](quickstart.ipynb) notebook inside this directory and follow the instructions there. **Please note, once propted to select a kernel (after running the first code cell), you should select the `base` kernel (which should show up as recommended).**