In this post, we will run through how you can double-click a Jupyter notebook to open it. Jupyter notebooks are one way engineers can write and execute Python code. But when you double-click a Jupyter notebook on your computer, it probably doesn't open or it opens in notepad at looks like nonsense. Learn how to open Jupyter notebooks by double-clicking using the steps in this post.

This post contains my top 5 Python tools. These 5 tools are the ones I use the most and recommend for Python programmers. These tools help me write, run and revise code and they make me a more productive programmer.

In this post, we will run through how to open a Jupyter notebook on Windows 10. Jupyter notebooks are one way engineers can write and execute Python code. Jupyter notebooks contain Python code, the output of that code produces when it is run and markdown cells to explain what the code means. A Jupyter notebook can be started from the Anaconda Prompt, the Windows start menu or by using the Anaconda Navigator.

In this post, I'll review creating virtual environments on three different operating systems: Windows 10, Linux and Mac OSX. Using virtual environments is good programming practice when using Python. A virtual environment will separate the Python interpreter and installed modules from the main Python installation.

To start a new Python project, it is best practice to create a new virtual environment. I have the Anaconda distribution of Python installed on my Windows 10 machine at work. When you install Anaconda, it comes with the very useful Anaconda Prompt. Using the Anaconda Prompt is a bit …