{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Jupyter Notebook Setup Guide for MEEN20010\n", "\n", "It is not necessary to install any software on your computer to explore these interactive course notes, however if you do wish to install the tools (and I would encourage it) this document will also guide you through the necessary steps needed to get Jupyter Notebooks running on your own machine. Guides are provided for Windows, Mac and Linux.\n", "\n", "If you do not want to install any software but want to interact with the code you can simply copy the GitHub URL of the notebook to Google CoLab (https://colab.research.google.com) and it'll run a copy right there in the browser for you. This should work on any device from desktop to smartphone.\n", "\n", "## Minimal approach\n", "\n", "If you just want to read the notes and not worry about any computer code or software aspects of this module then you can use the HTML versions of the notes. These are available on GitHub and can be found via Brightspace. You can happily ignore the rest of this document." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Windows 10\n", "\n", "This is a step by step guide to installing the Jupyter notebook software and required tools on Windows 10.\n", "This was performed on Windows 10 Pro (1903) with Firefox 68.0.1. **This process shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.**\n", "Since the Windows is, for better or worse, the most common platform this guide will go into the most detail on setting up the required software for the latest Microsoft operating system. If you're running Windows 7 or 8 the guide should also work.\n", "\n", "### Install python 3.x\n", "\n", "Open your web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge etc) and go to python.org and download the latest version of python.\n", "(Currently 3.7.4 at time of writing). **Be sure to download python 3.x, while python 2.7 is still available it is obsolete and should not be used.**\n", "\n", "**If you're running a 64bit version of Windows (which is very likely the case nowadays) download the 64 bit version.** You can find it here: (https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/. Scroll down to the **Windows x86-64 executable** installer version.\n", "\n", "\n", "