In this workshop, we’ll be covering all the basics you need to get ready for doing Python programming on your own computer, as well as introduce how to use remote computers (like CSU Engineering’s Asha Cluster). We’ll be going over this content in an interactive/back-and-forth fashion, so this outline below is just that, an outline. A more detailed summary of material will be posted as a reference after-the-fact, based on what we end up covering.
Outline¶
- Verify the basics (conda and VS Code) have been installed
- Basics of the command line (structure of a command, viewing and navigating directories, copy/moving files, flags and getting help)
- Intro to conda
- This cheat sheet may come in handy!
- This will include a basic intro to the python terminal/REPL
- This command will download a sample environment file:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csu-atmos-programming/csu-atmos-programming.github.io/main/static/environment.yml(this will get you a nice environment of packages for atmospheric sciences)
- Intro to JupyterLab
- Intro to VS Code
- Using remote systems (like Asha)
Extra Reference Materials¶
Installing Python on Windows without Admin Permissions¶
- Use the prior instructions to install Windows Terminal
- Install the windows version of miniconda from https://
docs .anaconda .com /miniconda / #latest -miniconda -installer -links - Use the prior instructions to install VS Code
- Once we both a) set up VS Code with our extensions and b) create a conda environment, we need to select the environment’s python interpreter in VS Code to connect the two together.