<title> IPython Installation Tutorial</title>

<h1>Ipython</h1>

<h2>Installation</h2>

Use Anaconda from continuum.io - <a href="http://continuum.io/downloads">http://continuum.io/downloads </a>. Use the installer for windows, mac or linux.

Be sure to use 2.7 python (Do not use 3.4 )

After the installation, find the packages installed by thing the command line instruction "conda list".

Look at the available packages from continuum.io as well as the defaults:

<a href="http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs">http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs</a>

<h2>Python test</h2>

You should test to see that ananconda has been put in the path of your application lookup by using command line test:

>python

Python 2.7.10 |Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit)| (default, May 28 2015, 17:02:03)

[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://binstar.org

>>> a=2

>>> a

2

>>> quit()

Next try out the ipython notebook interface.

Details of ipython can be found at: <a href="http://ipython.org">http://ipython.org</a>.

My current versions is 3.2 but other versions will be documented at this site.

At the command line run:

mkdir notebooktutorial

cd notebook tutorial

ipython notebook

This should open a browser window at localhost:8888/tree.

Create a new python 2 notebook and under file rename it Test1.

in the IN [1]: box enter:

In [1]: a=2

a

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The result should show as:

Out [1]: 2

Using spyder ( a python IDE that comes with anaconda )

Create a new python file with:

a=2

print(2)

Open a python or ipython console and press the run button. The output should show 2 after the runfile('path/nameofile.py', wdir='path/of/working/directory') is automatically invoked.

<h2>Matlab test</h2>

In your Test1 In[2] enter:

from matlotlib.pylab import *

import numpy as np

%matplotlib inline

plot(np.arange(10)**2)

A graph should show up in your notebook.