Overview
This lesson is designed to be run on a personal computer. All of the software and data used in this lesson are freely available online, and instructions on how to obtain them are provided below.
Install Python and VS Code
In this lesson, we will be using Python 3 with some of its most popular scientific libraries.
For the IDE of choice, install VS Code, though any like PyCharm, will also work.
Launch Python interface
To start working with Python, we need to launch a program that will interpret and execute our Python commands. Below we list several options. If you don’t have a preference, proceed with the top option in the list that is available on your machine. Otherwise, you may use any interface you like.