To get started, check-out the git repository with the exercise:

git clone ttps://github.com/ASvyatkovskiy/PythonWorkshop
cd PythonWorkshop

If you do not have git or you do not wish to install it, just download the repository as zip, and unpack it:

wget https://github.com/ASvyatkovskiy/PythonWorkshop/archive/master.zip
#For Mac users:
#curl -O https://github.com/ASvyatkovskiy/PythonWorkshop/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip

Then change to the the repository folder.

To install Python3 for this course got to: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-351/ Scroll down to the "Files" section and select file which best matches your OS. Once finished with the installation, test it by typing:

python3

in the command line, it will open up a Python REPL, printing out the details on the version of Python.

Two package managers are going to use for this course: Anaconda and pip3. These package managers are also available on Princeton clusters.

If you have not installed Anaconda yet, please go to this page: https://www.continuum.io/downloads and select the version for Python 3 compatible with your operating system.

Type:

conda --help

to confirm the installation is succesful.

Once this is installed, create an isolated Anaconda nevironment for today's course, and install ipython notebook in it:

conda create -n PythonWorkshop python=3.5.1 anaconda
source activate PythonWorkshop
conda install --name PythonWorkshop ipython-notebook=4.0.4
conda install --name PythonWorkshop pip

Note: pip3 is a part of the stock install for Python > version 3.4. But we need a different pip - the one from Anaconda to be able to use it inside our isolated environment.

ipython3 notebook

After the notebook is opened, navigate to the workshop folder and open the 0.Setup.ipynb from the browser window.