Python — Jupyter Notebook Quick Start with VSCode

How to Set your Win10 Environment to use Jupyter Notebook — #PySeries#Episode 00

Hi, at the end of this tutorial, your Jupyter notebook will run in your Win10.

Fig 1. Working with Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

I have found this awesome code editor (Visual Studio Code V. 1.47.30) application to increase my productivity when coding, and with it, I was able to easily configure my Windows 10 platform to run the Jupyter notebook cells in python 3.

If you are interested in having a good tool to code in Jupyter notebook cells, be welcome :)

00# Step — Download Visual Studio Code (I’m using MS Win 10 Home Single Lang Edition — Version 10.0.18363) from:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

01#Step — Open VSCode, (1) Go to Extensions (Ctrl + Shift + X), type Python, on the search bar, choose Python, and (2) click the green button to Install MS Python Extension:

Fig 2. Python Extension includes rich support for Python Language, including IntelliSense, linting, debugging, code formatting, Jupyter notebook support, refactoring, variable explorer, test Explorer, snippets, and more!

02#Step — Create a folder for your Jupyter projects.

Mine is located in this directory:

C:\Users\giljr\Documents\Visual_Code_Projects\Jupyter

03#Step —Open it on your VSCode and create a folder; mine is called EX_00 (it will be overwritten by .ipynb):

Fig 3. Preparing my environments, folder, and files for better organization, and later uploads it all to Git Repo :)

04#Step — Type F1, run Create New Blank Jupyter Notebook in the Command Palette ( Shift + Command + P ):

Fig 4. Running Create New Blank Jupyter Notebook in the Command Palette (Shift + Command + P)

05#Step — In Jupyter cell, type:

print("hello")
hit Ctrl + Enter

:/ Hit the Install blue-button anyway!

Fig 5. The Jupyter server is inactive…it must locate the Data Science libraries and notebook which are not installed yet in the Python 3.7.3 64 bit :/ HIT the blue Install button above… Let’s see what will happen! :)

06#Step — After all installations, run the cell again, and everything must be ok! See that the Jupyter server is working like a charm in my win!

Fig 6. To complete this step, at the console, type: python -m pip install — upgrade pip…

Fig 7. And pip-20 has installed successfully!

07#Step — Hit button Save notebook and go to your EX_01 directory and rename it to ex_00_hello_world.ipynb:

Fig 8. All set and done! Jupyter notebook has finally arrived to join us \o/ — After a lot of hard work!

And that’s all!

As promised, the Jupyter notebook is up and running!

In the next PySeries episode, I will run some Python code for engineering calculations…Be there!

Bye for now!

Download all Files from the GitHub Repo

References & Credits

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

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