Let's get your computer set up for data science with Jupyter notebooks in Python, R, and Julia without installing any of that, and without using the command line.
Docker is a tool for downloading lightweight virtual machines called "containers" and running them in the background. We will use it to import all the data science tools in a container, to avoid installing them on your machine.
Install the Docker Desktop app using the instructions on its website. ➡️
Empowering App Development for Developers | Docker
VS Code is an extremely popular coding editor and it integrates well with Docker.
Install VS Code using the instructions on its website. ➡️
Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
VS Code stored the choices you made above in a .devcontainer
folder inside your project.
Next time you open the same folder, it asks if you want to use the same container. Say yes.