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