Follow this link to the Anaconda Distribution downloads page. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Click the download button, and follow the directions on your installer prompt
Check out this webpage for ways to verify your installation worked correctly.
An easy way to test this is through your terminal/command prompt.
- Make sure you quit your terminal / command prompt application
- (Re)open it
- Run
conda --version
You should see a version number!
Additionally, you should now have an application called Anaconda Navigator. If that application exists, you installed successfully.
- Get an IDE up and running!
For this course, we will be using a browser-based IDE called
jupyter. When running,jupyterwill allow use to write python code and see the results in real-time.2. Open anotebook. You can think of a notebook as a document that you will write your code in. Every time you want to write some code, you will either open an existing notebook, or create a new one. - Start writing some python code! Yay!
You can start the Anaconda Navigator app and then launch Jupyter Notebook.
You can also launch Jupyter from your Terminal or Command Prompt. Navigate to your directory of choice and type jupyter notebook
This worked if..
- A browser on your computer opened up
- You get a message in your Command Prompt that looks like this:
- The browser is displaying something like this
In your browser, click the link to the chapters page.
This should show you a bunch of files (Chapters 1-8).
When you are working through a chapter, you will navigate to this screen and choose the chapter to focus on.
Now we can start coding! Follow the instructions in each chapter to get going.