I'm sure this will be an unpopular answer on HN but have you tried Azure notebooks? Microsoft's Eric Camplin has a series of edX courses[1] that do a great job

I'm sure this will be an unpopular answer on HN but have you tried Azure notebooks? Microsoft's Eric Camplin has a series of edX courses[1] that do a great job getting total newbies up and programming with python as painlessly as possible. [1] https://www.edx.org/bio/eric-camplin https://www.edx.org/bio/eric-camplin