I don’t like programming, I am not very good at it; yes I can do just enough to make Arduino’s talk SCPI and do other things for me. However, I dislike writing reports in Microsoft Word more (don’t get me started on my feelings about Microsoft Windows). This is where Jupyter Notebook may come in (Not Juniper notebook as I have historicly mis-named it).
To install Jupyter Notebook on this Windows 10 machine, I am going to use Anaconda rather than go through the hassle of installing Python etc myself.
Installing Anaconda
Anaconda can be downloaded from its download page (on the same page there is a reduced package called Miniconda which is a cut down version). Download the installer, and run it.
The Anaconda install also installed Python 3 on the computer and due to selecting “for all users” it was able to install Python system wide.
Once it is fully installed, it will prompt you to open Anaconda Navigator, you may then have to dismiss it asking you to sign up or connect.
Getting a Jupyter Notebook
Scrolling down slightly on the Anaconda Main window, there is an icon for Jupyter notebook (in my case 7.2.2), click the “Launch” button under the icon.
On my computer I had a permmisions issue, this was overcome by navigating to ‘C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\jupyter\runtime’ and clicking access.
In Firefox (my default web browser) the following opened up, I clicked the small X on the Anaconda Assistant.
I want to make my first Jupter Notebook in Documents, and a subfolder called test, so sellecting Documents allows us to navigate into the folder, then right clicking allows us to create a new folder.
Once in the new folder called test, we can right click again to make a new notebook, it will be called untitled by default. At this point I assume I want the default Kernal, so click select.
I am going to have a go at replicating my EMC plots in this notebook, so I can move away from using Microsoft Excel.
