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PYTHON 3 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

Jonathan R. Medrano is the lecturer for the numerical methods course MEC 0223, which requires access to a computer, preferably using Python 3. Students should install the Anaconda software and follow specific commands to set up their programming environment with Spyder as the IDE. For assistance, students can contact the lecturer via email.

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PYTHON 3 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

Jonathan R. Medrano is the lecturer for the numerical methods course MEC 0223, which requires access to a computer, preferably using Python 3. Students should install the Anaconda software and follow specific commands to set up their programming environment with Spyder as the IDE. For assistance, students can contact the lecturer via email.

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Good Day, class.

My name is Jonathan R. Medrano. I'll be your Lecturer for MEC 0223. For this course, we will be using
the university's online class management system (MS TEAMS).

MEC 0223 is a numerical methods course, and, unfortunately, I don't know any practical way of doing
this course without a computer. If you don’t have access to a laptop or a desktop computer, I believe
you will have a very difficult time on this course. If you truly have no access to a computer for this
semester, I recommend that you withdraw your enrolment on this course to access our computer
laboratory.

We will be using the general programming language Python. If you already have Python installed and
you are well-versed with it, cool! We will be using Python 3 for this course, and you are free to use any
IDE of your choice. If this is your first-time using Python or even write computer code, then kindly
download and install the Anaconda installer for your operating system. Follow this procedure in
installing the program.

Installer Link: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual#Downloads

After installation, open the Anaconda prompt with administrator privileges (my computer runs
Windows, so the procedure may vary a little for Mac or Linux)
Enter the command conda update --all.

After it loads, enter y and let it run to completion.


Check if things have been updated completely by entering conda update anaconda and conda
update spyder.

Finally, enter conda install spyder-notebook -c spyder-ide. This should install the notebook tab in
Spyder, which is a program that is installed when you run the Anaconda installer.

We will work with Python using Spyder as our integrated development environment (IDE) for a more
convenient programming experience.

When you open Spyder, you should see a notebook tab somewhere in there. I configured my session
to display the Notebook tab on the left (where the red arrow is pointing).
To prepare for the course, I recommend you watch this video: Python for Beginners with Spyder IDE

For any concerns, feel free to drop me an email.

See you all soon.

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