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Python via Anaconda

Anaconda is a collection of apps for data analysis. The Anaconda distribution includes Python, the Spyder Interactive Development Environment and Jupyter Notebook among other apps.

Install Anaconda with Python 3.7

Note: Make sure you get the version with Python 3.7 (or higher) (NOT 2.7) or the examples will not work.

Download here
Instalation instructions on Windows
Installing on macOS

IPython Notebook

• Also known as Jupyter notebook
• Web based computational environment
• Lets the user run Python on a web page
• Divide computional steps into cells.

Github

• Join github (see tutorial)
• Install github desktop
• Watch Github Desktop for Windows tutorial
• Clone the class github repository following instruction from here

Run IPython notebook ‘hello world’

1. Start Anaconda Navigator
   
2. Start Jupyter Notebook
3. It will launch in a web browser. The web-browser should show all the files and directories in your home folder.

4. In the web browser browse to the ‘inf-428-data-analytics’ folder (the folder you cloned from github), then browse to ‘python/notebooks/introduction/ and open PythonNotebookHelloWorld.ipynb.

5. Alternatively you can get Python notebook hello world directly from the web.
6. Run the first cell of the notebook.

See Video demonstration

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