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You can save so much time and effort using the Google colab notebooks rather than setting up python on your own machine (as is recommended in this guide)

savant_penguin 4y ago
Although this is true I find these online notebooks awfully slow
TimSchumann 4y ago
I think there may be many a use case where the data being operated on cannot be shared with third parties.
mkl 4y ago
You can save a little bit of copy-paste that will take a few minutes at most. If you do it, you can work directly with your own files, work offline, control the hardware, etc. I think it's simpler than this guide makes out too, as it tries to minimise the amount of space used, which is often not needed. Installing Anaconda instead of Miniconda would get you pretty much set up in one step, plus a single copy-paste step if you want all the packages the book uses.
atty 4y ago
Downloading an installing Anaconda is pretty much painless and gives you more flexibility (and better responsiveness) than collab.
- auxym 4y ago
  Not sure about colab, but its important to note that Anaconda is not free for commercial use.
  - prepend 4y ago
    Miniconda is free and is great for running jupyter.
  - Tarq0n 4y ago
    They keep making confusing statements about this, I thought you only needed a license for CI/CD style usage of their repository?
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analog31 4y ago
Worth mentioning Jupyter Lite in this context too. Warning: This link will open a Jupyter notebook in your browser: https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/ It's worked pretty smoothly for me so far. I can't vouch for how it handles big data sets or obscure libraries, but seems like a pretty good starting point for those who are learning Python. It has become how I prefer to share simple notebooks with colleagues too. But either of these options is nice for dealing with the situation of getting a beginner through the Python installation process. Another is WinPython, which is my preferred environment for local installation.
tmaly 4y ago
Are there anything like this online that could run stuff written for pygame? I know lots of beginners start with Scratch, but having some type of gaming in the browser for Python would be nice.
anigbrowl 4y ago
Absolutely true, but learning things that hard way was worth it to me. Plus I am old-fashioned enough to like doing things on my own hardware and not necessarily wanting to share my data/code every time for reasons of security or modesty (as in embarrassingly basic). I do like what Colab offers and appreciate having all that processing power/infrastructure available.

savant_penguin 4y ago

Although this is true I find these online notebooks awfully slow

TimSchumann 4y ago

I think there may be many a use case where the data being operated on cannot be shared with third parties.

mkl 4y ago

You can save a little bit of copy-paste that will take a few minutes at most. If you do it, you can work directly with your own files, work offline, control the hardware, etc. I think it's simpler than this guide makes out too, as it tries to minimise the amount of space used, which is often not needed. Installing Anaconda instead of Miniconda would get you pretty much set up in one step, plus a single copy-paste step if you want all the packages the book uses.

atty 4y ago

Downloading an installing Anaconda is pretty much painless and gives you more flexibility (and better responsiveness) than collab.

auxym 4y ago
Not sure about colab, but its important to note that Anaconda is not free for commercial use.
- prepend 4y ago
  Miniconda is free and is great for running jupyter.
- Tarq0n 4y ago
  They keep making confusing statements about this, I thought you only needed a license for CI/CD style usage of their repository?
deleted 4y ago
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analog31 4y ago

Worth mentioning Jupyter Lite in this context too. Warning: This link will open a Jupyter notebook in your browser: https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/ It's worked pretty smoothly for me so far. I can't vouch for how it handles big data sets or obscure libraries, but seems like a pretty good starting point for those who are learning Python. It has become how I prefer to share simple notebooks with colleagues too. But either of these options is nice for dealing with the situation of getting a beginner through the Python installation process. Another is WinPython, which is my preferred environment for local installation.

tmaly 4y ago

Are there anything like this online that could run stuff written for pygame? I know lots of beginners start with Scratch, but having some type of gaming in the browser for Python would be nice.

anigbrowl 4y ago

Absolutely true, but learning things that hard way was worth it to me. Plus I am old-fashioned enough to like doing things on my own hardware and not necessarily wanting to share my data/code every time for reasons of security or modesty (as in embarrassingly basic). I do like what Colab offers and appreciate having all that processing power/infrastructure available.