Python-Package-Tutorial-and-Guidebooks

This package containes starter guides to various cruitial python packages used in the 2026 IIntruction to Artifical Intelligence Course

Requirements

Colab

All major requrements are hhandles by both the Google Colab Platform and the install pacakagesin each notebook

Vscode Extensions

• Jupyter
• Colab
• Python
• ipykernel

Vscode or Pycharm or Local setup

For a smooth experience I woluld advice setting up virtal environnment that would be used as the kernel for your notebooks. You can do that directly in vscode or using the terminal

Vscode

• In Vscode you can use Ctrl+Shif+P and select Python: Create Environment
• Select the venv tool you pefer be it venv or conda
• then select the python version you want to use preferable a version above Python 3.12
• Once selected check the requirements.txt and click OK

Terminal

• In the terminal , make sure you re at the package location
• Run the following command to create a virtual environment

            python -m venv your-environment-name

• Activate the virtual environment

            source your-environment-name/bin/activate  # On Unix or MacOS
            your-environment-name\Scripts\activate     # On Windows

• Install the packages in the requirement file using the command

            pip install -r requirements.txt

Using the virtual environment

• In vscode, open the command palette Ctrl+Shift+P and select Python: Select Interpreter
• Choose the virtual environment you just created as the interpreter for your notebooks
• Alternatively at the top-right corner of your notebook you can click on select kernel and select the virtual environment you created

Packages

• Numpy
• MatPlotLib
• Pandas
• Scikit-Learn
• Seaborn
• Torch being worked on

Note

These are extreme simplification of the various packages,. or further understanding, refer to the documentations for the various packages as well as video tutorial and guides online. Dot be afraid to use LLMs to help build your understanding but be cautious as the sometimes hallucinate information.