Google colab¶

TL;DR: Google colab is free, and powerful, and if you or your students are struggling with package installs it will help you.

Sometimes setting up a machine is really hard. If you have students or you yourself use windows, you may find some of these tools just don't work. This can get really frustrating. I can highly recommend, if you get stuck, trying google colab. This is essentially what google docs is to Pages or Word. You can have a jupyter notebook, online, which is easy to run and share.

Colab will let you

• Save notebooks to your drive
• Start notebooks from GitHub
• Install whatever packages you want that work with thier Python version (3.7 at time of writing)

I find them very useful to give to students, and to make "live" tutorials with my packages.