• To use Jupyter notebook on department machines, execute the following command in the terminal: 
    $ export PATH=/usr/local/anaconda/bin:$PATH
    After doing that, you can access jupyter notebook with the command:
    $ jupyter notebook --browser=firefox
  • Anaconda: a Python distribution that bundles together a ot of useful Python packages and Jupyter notebook.
  • The Python website. Note that we will be using version 3 of Python. The key differences are described in the following article.
  • The free online textbook Python for everybody.
  • Ipython: a better Python interpreter (included in the anaconda distribution).
  • Matplotlib: a library for data plotting (included in the anaconda distribution).