1. University of Washington CSE 416 Spring 2019 Hongjun Wu
How to Setup Anaconda
University of Washington
CSE 416 Spring 2019
Hongjun Wu
© 2019 Hongjun Wu

2. Setup 1. For Python version, we are using Python 3.6 (Not 3.7)
I will use Windows 10 to demonstrate. macOS and Linux should be similar.
Navigate to the archive of Anaconda and download Anaconda
Why not Python 3.7?
Python 3.7 is too new. Some packages we are using might not be compatible with 3.7.
Python 3.6 is the “known stable” version of Python 3 for quite a long time.
However, if you have 3.7 installed you can create a virtual environment using 3.6.
2. Install Anaconda
Remember to check the “add to PATH” option.
3. Test everything works properly.
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3. Optional: Create virtual env
Steps:
1. Open anaconda prompt
2. Run [conda –V] and check you do have Python 3.7 installed.
3. Run [conda update conda]
4. Run [conda create –n cse416 python=3.6 anaconda]
Hit y.
This will take a while.
Note: “cse416” is an arbitrarily picked environment name. You can name it whatever you want(i.e. myenv).
5. Run [conda activate cse416]
Source: cookbook/recipe/2014/11/20/conda/
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