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 we will create a plot using matplotlib and Python. The plot will show two trig functions, sine and cosine on the same set of axes.

Units and unit conversions are BIG in engineering. Engineers solve the world's problems in teams. Any problem that is solved has to have a context that it is solved in. How heavy can a rocket be and still make it off the ground? What thickness body panels should be used to keep occupants save during a crash? In engineering, a number without a unit is like a fish without water. It just flops around hopelessly without context and is useless. How can we get help using units? Programming is one way. In this post, we are going to use Python and Pint, a python package used for unit conversions, to do a couple of sample unit conversion problems.

This is the fourth part in a multi-part series on how I built this site. In the last post, we installed the pelican-bootstrap3 theme and made our site mobile responsive. Now the site looks good on all devices. In this post we are going to install a couple of plugins to add extra functionality to our site. These plugins will allow our site to have a series of post that are linked together, create a working search bar, add youtube videos to posts, view LaTeX math and add embedded jupyter notebooks in posts.