Setup Instructions

Python Training at S P Jain Institute

Noufal Ibrahim & Anand Chitipothu

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Setup instructions

Please follow the steps below to setup your environment for the training.

1. Download Anaconda for your platform from https://www.continuum.io/downloads. The python 3.5 64 bit version is preferred but if it doesn't work, you can download the 32 bit version.
2. Install it for yourself (not for all users).
3. From your start menu, launch "Anaconda Navigator". It's under the Anaconda3 section of the start menu.
4. A GUI will open up. There will be a 4 things inside it - "Jupyter notebook", "qtconsole", "spyder" and "glueviz".
5. Click on the "Launch" button below "Jupyter Notebook"
6. It should launch the notebook server and then open a browser automatically pointing to http://localhost:8889/tree
7. It will show you a page with "Jupyter" written on the top and a list of files.
8. On the right will be a "New" button. Click on that.

9. Select "Python [conda root]"

10. It should open a new tab in your browser pointing to http://localhost:8889/notebooks/Untitled.ipynb?kernel_name=conda-root-py

11. There will be a a "cell" with a border around it next to the In [ ]:. Click inside it. The outside border should turn from blue to green.

12. Type the following inside it

    print ("Hello, world")

1. Hold "Control" and hit "Enter".
2. IF Hello, world gets printed, then your installation is good.

I noticed some problems when my default browser was Internet Explorer. With Chrome, things worked fine.