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A2PythonBeginnerAbout 90 min to complete

Installing Python & JupyterLab

A clean, isolated, reproducible data-science environment you control.

Notebook

About 90 minutes to complete

Enrol to read the notebook and download it to run.

What this module covers

A clean, isolated, reproducible data-science environment you control.

By the end of it

  • Choose appropriately between the main installation routes (python.org, Anaconda,
  • Explain what a virtual environment is and articulate why installing packages globally
  • Create, activate, and deactivate a virtual environment on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Install the full data-science stack with pip, and understand what pip actually does
  • Pin an environment with requirements.txt so a colleague — or your future self — can
  • Launch JupyterLab and connect it to the correct kernel
  • Diagnose the single most common beginner failure: *"I installed pandas but the notebook
  • Verify any environment with a repeatable health-check script