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@uschille uschille commented Oct 9, 2021

Update the setup instructions to include installation of ipympl to enable the Matplotlib interactive tools for plotting in JupyterLab.

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Looks good and should be merged. We will need to revisit a couple of things after:

  • Level of detail on how to install and run Jupyter
  • Figshare link and instructions

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To test your environment, open a Jupyter notebook and copy the following lines into a cell:
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To test your environment, open a Jupyter notebook and copy the following lines into a cell:
To test your environment, open a Jupyter notebook (instructions for opening a Jupyter notebook can be found in the ["Programming with Python" lesson](https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/setup.html#option-a-jupyter-notebook)) and copy the following lines into a cell:

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Should we instead have our own concise instructions here as we expect the learners to have a bit of python experience? e.g.

To open a Jupyter notebook, open a terminal (Windows: "Anaconda Prompt") and type jupyter notebook.


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conda install -c conda-forge ipympl
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Windows users will need to be using the "Anaconda Prompt" or they'll get:

'conda' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


3. The example image files are available through Figshare. Learners
can download the images from [FIXME
figshare](https://figshare.com/). We recommend to create a
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Do we have anything on Figshare yet to link to?

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uschille commented Dec 8, 2021

Thanks @bobturneruk. I have opened #172 to revisit the setup instructions at a later point.

@uschille uschille merged commit 080fb70 into datacarpentry:gh-pages Dec 9, 2021
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