Getting Started
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To get Python working on you own computer you can first download python from python.org/downloads. And then download Visual Studio Code.
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To create a notebook on your own computer, open up VScode, and create a file like hello.ipynb. It’s important that you end the file name with .ipynb This tells VSCode that we want a notebook.
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To check that your setup is working and to install the necessary packages on your computer download and run the following notebook
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The following YouTube video walks you through how to execute a Python notebook in VSCode: