Hacks

Complete the procedure below accurately. These are absolutely required and must be 100% accurate for your success.

GitHub Account

MacOS 1st Time Developer

VSCode install

Anaconda install

  • Download for MacOS: Anaconda
  • Run Install: Answer yes to questions

Homebrew install

  • Copy and Paste to Install from Terminal Homebrew
    • Copy bash ... curl ... command using copy box on website
    • Launch terminal from search bar
    • Paste bash ... curl ... command into Terminal …
    • Make sure command starts, this should provide feedback/output in terminal and could take a long time, like 10-min, there could be a prompt in the middle, at about 5-minutes. Follow any on screen instructions provided in terminal output to finish.
  • Homebrew installs a tool called “brew” which helps add and manage developer packages on MacOS.

At this point, the next task is to prepare tools. You must start a new Terminal. Now the Terminal prompt should be prefixed with (base). If not, you need to go back to Anaconda install.

  • Open new Terminal, your prompt should look like this… 
    (base) iMac:~ jmort1021$

Key Packages needed on MacOS

  • Close and Start a new terminal, run each command in Terminal 
    $ brew list # list packages
$ brew update # update package list
$ brew upgrade # upgrade packages
$ brew install git  # install latest git
$ brew install python # install python3 for development
$ python --version # version of python3 installed

Jupyter Install and Kernels (MacOs and WSL)

Install Jupyter and check python kernel

(base) id:~$ conda --version 
(base) id:~$ conda install jupyter # install jupyter
(base) id:~$ jupyter kernelspec list # list installed kernels
Available kernels:
  python3    /home/shay/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3