EM JOSE Review - Foundations: Installing and running Python

[e-marshall]

Choosing a Python Platform

• Can the bullet points in this section (1. The terminal; 2. Jupyter notebooks, and 3. IDEs...) link to the corresponding section headers on the page? otherwise, its a bit confusing because we haven't been introduced to jupyter yet

[e-marshall]

Python in the terminal

• nit: the title of this page is different from how it is linked in the 'Getting started with Python' page,
• the 'Learn more about Conda here' line seems a little out of place, should it be below the example instead of above it? conda has been mentioned at this point but not on this page
• Can you link to nano and vim like you do the other IDEs mentioned, so the unfamiliar reader can learn what they are and more about them?

[e-marshall]

Python in Jupyter

• This section occurs before we've been introduced to jupyter, which feels a bit confusing. Could you add a short section or bit of text explaining that (perhaps in 'overview' or 'prerequisites')?

[e-marshall]

Installing and managing python with conda

• I like the content on this page, but I expected a bit more of a mention of general concepts like virtual environments and dependency management, and conda as a tool for installing and managing them. There is a bit of this in the 'packages' section, but it pretty quickly goes to conda. I think exposing the reader to things like pip, venv, and newer tools like uv and pixi would be beneficial, even if text was included along the lines of 'in this material, we focus on conda environments but these are other types of environments/package installation/tools to be aware of...'