Running Jupyter Notebooks on Windows with VSCode

Prerequsites

• Window 11 Education N or similar

• Python 3.12 or greater

• VSCode 1.91 or later

• VScode Extenstions:

  • ms-toolsai.jupyter
  • ms-python.vscode-pylance
  • ms-python.python

Create a new "Project"

Open VSCode From the file menu "New Window" In the new VSCode instance click "Open Folder" In the file dialog do NOT select a folder but right-click in the dialog and CREATE a new folder. Select the newly created folder.

Create a new Virtual Environment

This will be the place where all dependcies will be installed into. Open the Comamnd Palette (e.g. press F1 key) Select or enter: Python: Create Environment

• Select Venv
• Select Python 3.12 This will create a '.venv' folder inside your project Open the Comamnd Palette (e.g. press F1 key) Select or enter Python: Select Interpreter
• Select the interpreter that was created in the previous step. E.g.: "..venv\Scripts\python.exe"

Install Dependencies

Open a terminal inside VSCode (e.g. Cltrl `) pip install all dependencies: E.g.: "pip install jupyter matplotlib"

Create a Jupyter Notebook:

Open the Comamnd Palette (e.g. press F1 key) Select or enter Create: New Jupyter Notebook

Enter something simple:

msg = "Hello World"
print(msg)

Click the run button. In the Command Palette select your python environment. E.g.: ..venv\Scripts\python.exe

Create a new cell (click '+ Code') and use the dependencies:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(0,10,100)
y = np.sin(x)

plt.plot(x,y)

Click the run button.