Environment & Tooling Setup¶

Getting from a blank laptop to a working, reproducible data-science setup: installing Anaconda, isolating a conda environment, installing and touring VS Code, running Jupyter notebooks, IPython's built-in productivity tools, and — once local hardware isn't enough — HiPerGator and the reactive marimo notebook format.

Ordered easiest to hardest. Start at the top if you're setting up for the first time; skip ahead if a topic is already familiar.