This week, we will go over the general structure of this course, our motivations and tools.
We will also install a lot of stuff!
For reference, I will use some Unix-like commands. We’ll only cover a few, but just in case you want to know more, here is a Windows-to-Unix conversion cheetsheet:
Download the version appropriate for your operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) - make sure you select Python 3 (not 2)
Click on the .exe or package file that gets downloaded and run the install program
For Windows - search for Jupyter Notebook, click and run; For Mac - in Applications folder, click on Anaconda Navigator, click on the Jupyter Notebook link once the Navigator opens
Open a new notebook by clicking “New” in the upper left corner and selecting Python 3
Test your installation with the following commands:
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([5,6])
Make sure to press SHIFT+ENTER after each line. You should see a simple line plot appear.