Software-Carpentry@UCL: Python Setup

You need to download some files to follow this lesson:

1. Create a repository on github with a name like LearningPython or similar.
2. Clone such repository to your desktop using git clone as you learnt yesterday.
3. Download python-novice-inflammation-data.zip and move the file to this folder.
4. Also download python-novice-inflammation-code.zip and move it to the same folder.
5. If the files aren’t unzipped yet, double-click to unzip them. You should end up with two new folders called data and code.
6. To get started, go into the data folder from the Unix shell with:

$ cd
$ cd Desktop/LearningPython/data

If you will be using the Jupyter (IPython) notebook for the lesson, you should have already installed Anaconda which includes the notebook.

To start the notebook, open a terminal or git bash and type the command:

$ jupyter notebook

To start the Python interpreter without the notebook, open a terminal or git bash and type the command:

$ python