Anaconda

Anaconda Distribution

Anaconda Distribution is a Python/R data science distribution that contains:

• Anaconda Navigator: a desktop application built on conda, with options to launch other development applications from your managed environments
• conda: a package and environment manager for your command line interface
• Over 300 automatically-installed packages that work well together out of the box

Installing Anaconda

Install Anaconda from the download page

Anaconda navigator

Cf. Overview page

• Home page: Install or launch popular graphical Python applications that work well with Navigator. We will mainly uses:
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • VS Code
    • Most useful VS code extensions
• Environments page: allows you to manage installed environments, packages, and channels.

Conda: Working with the environements

Conda is an open source package management and environment management tool for Python and other languages. Whenever you use Python, you will be working in a Python environment, which contains the specific Python version you are running on and various Python packages with specific package versions and specifications.

Cf. this starting guide from conda.