SpyderMan Homecoming
Introduction to Spyder IDE
SPYDER IDE
What is Spyder?
Well, it’s not the typical friendly neighborhood spiderman that we all know of.
Spyder is an open source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language. — Wikipedia
SPYDER stands for Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment
Are you guys ready to learn more about Spyder?
Just follow along with my codes and have fun!
To launch Spyder IDE, just type ‘Spyder’ on the windows search bar and click OPEN button.
Spyder User Interface should look like this
The left side is called the Code Block. This is where we will write our codes.
On the top right corner, we can find the current file directory.
We can change it by clicking the folder button and navigate to any directory we want.
The files explorer tab shows all the files present in the current working directory.
Whereas the variables tab lists all the variables that are present in our Python Environment.
Lastly, we have the Python Console or the output window.
This is the section where you will see the output of your Python Codes.
Now let’s try to create simple codes.
On the code block section, enter print(“Hello World!”) and press Ctrl + Z to run the command.
Next, let’s try to create some variables.
You can see that the variables tab populated and 31.4 reflected as a result when I called the print(ALI) function. Note that we assigned the variable ALI to a 31.40 value.
To import a file in Python, first, we need to import the pandas library in our python environment.
Next, pass on the file path on the read_csv parameter to load the dataset into our environment
If we want to make our coding environment tabs more enjoyable, we can go to the tools tab > preferences tab > editor section.
Let’s change the themes! Just click on the appearance tab and select your preferences. Here I set the Interface Theme to ‘Light’, and changed the Icon Theme to ‘Spyder 2'
Let’s restart the Kernel
COMMAND PROMPT
To open the Command Prompt, just hit the windows button and type CMD, and press enter. It should look like this:
To change directory, enter ‘cd’…
…followed by the directory name, ‘Desktop’ for example. And hit enter
To go back the directory, click ‘cd ..” to take you to the previous directory
To move directories in multiple steps, use cd directory name \ directory name
To go back multiple stepps, use cd ../..
You can hit the tab key to auto-complete the directory name
That’s all for today! :D