As mentioned, most Linux machines will come with Python built in, but if yours doesn’t, you’ll need to grab the interpreter. From there, you can go ahead and set up Visual Studio Code for Python.

Learn how to get Python up and running on Windows, macOS, or Linux—and avoid the biggest pitfalls along the way.

I’ll show you how to install Python 3 on Linux. If you use a different operating system, you’ll need to modify the installation instructions to suit your platform of choice.

Computational Physics at SFU uses Python 3 from the Anaconda distribution. The documentation on this website will cover using Jupyter notebooks on the SFU Syzygy online servers. As an alternative, you ...