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Install Python and friends

  1. Go to https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ and download conda (Choose python 3.6 - 2.7 is end-of-life)
  2. when it asks to modify your path, let it. That will make ~/anaconda3/bin/python your python instead of the system python which is at /usr/bin/python.

That should be everything!

Running

Command line:

% python myscript.py

Interactive:

% ipython

This will start an ipython shell where python commands can be entered (like the matlab shell)

Notebook

% jupyter notebook

This will open a jupyter notebook on your machine.
You may need to open in a browser using the address supplied. Note that I don't find Safari works that well, so often use Firefox.

There are two main types of cells "Code", where you enter and execute code (like the %% new cell in matlab editor) and "Markdown" cells where you can write comments. The lectures here were written in a notebook.

Note the %matplotlib notebook in the first code cell of this notebook. This tells matplotlib to render plots inside the notebook.

Learning

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