April 28, 2024

How to Install Anaconda and Sypder and How to Create Python Scripts and Install Packages

In this tutorial, we explain

  • How to install Anaconda in Windows
  • How to write and run Python scripts from Anaconda using the Spyder development environment
  • How to customize and install Python packages in Anaconda

For those of you who are not familiar with Anaconda, Anaconda is a powerful Python development environment that can be used for scientific computing, machine learning, data science, and the development of signal processing and control engineering algorithms. Anaconda comes with more than 250 automatically installed Python packages. On the other hand, Spyder is a very powerful and easy-to-use Python development environment. Its working principle is similar to MATLAB, that is, we can independently select a block a code and evaluate this code block in a dedicated console. The YouTube tutorial explaining how to install Anaconda is given below.