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Installation

For this workshop it is required that you have Python pre-installed on your computer. This is a basic guide on how to do this.

1) Installing Python

Windows

  1. The simplest way to install Python is direct from the Python website. Please download the windows installer for your processor type (nearly always 64bit) and the latest version 3.11.x

  2. Run the installer (that you have just downloaded). Follow the install instructions. It is important that you tick Add python to PATH

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  3. Check the installation

    1. Open Command Prompt
    2. Run the command python

MacOS

The best way to install Python on MacOS is from the offical Python website. Then follow the rest of these instructions.

Linux

Please look up the specific method for your distribution.

2) Installing packages

The easiest way to install packages is using the python package manager pip. This will install packages along with any depencies that they might have.

The latest version of deerlab can be installed with:

pip install deerlab

It is also recomended that you install jupyter. This is required for this workshop but not DeerLab.

pip install jupyter

Checking the Install

Run this command to check that deerlab is install properly

python -c "import deerlab; print(deerlab.dd_gauss)"

3) Installing VScode or Jupyter Lab

Whilst everything above is all that is required to use DeerLab it is highly recomended that an IDE is used to program. Here there is two options:

Option A: VScode

VScode is the most popular development enviroment in the world, with over 70% of developers using it. It is developed by Microsoft.

  1. It can be installed from the VSCode Website
  2. Run the installer. Follow the install instructions.
  3. Start VScode

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  1. Open your Extensions Tab. Install:

    1. Python
    2. Jupyter

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  2. Your python version should appear status bar at the bottom

Option B: Jupyter Lab

Jupyter Lab is a self-hosted web based IDE for Jupyter Notebooks.

  1. It can be installed using pip 
    pip install jupyterlab
  2. Start Jupyter Lab from Command Prompt 
    jupyter-lab
  3. Navigate to the relevant folder

4) Downloading these files

To do the course you want to make sure that you have successfully downloaded these scripts and data. This can be download as a zip file by pressing this link. download this folder/repo

Then open this folder in either VScode or Jupyter lab. Before the course have a look at 01-python-basics.