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selenayI'm getting much more confident with my MacBook. Last week, I wanted to upgrade my Anaconda install (I had a very old version because a course I was taking required it, but then they updated everything so it worked with the newest version of jupyter notebooks and Python 3.6), which wasn't as easy as it should have been because I'd had to install such an old version. Wow, what an old version. There was no way to go from what I had installed to anything close to the newest version. Or even just a version that used Python 3.6 instead of 3.4, so I wouldn't have to remember to switch to my 3.6 environment each time I wanted to do anything.
So I did a bit of Googling, found the way to uninstall Anaconda and clean up anything it left behind, and then installed the newest version. It was all surprisingly easy, including updating the path in my profile. So now my development environment is shiny and update to date. Plus, because I'm using conda, I can easily set up an environment with older versions of things if I need to, so working with Python is proving to be much easier than expected. Hooray for good package managers!
But mostly, this process gave me the confidence to do that kind of change in my new toy, and I'm getting a much better feel for what I'm working with.
It helps that Terminal is a Unix shell, which I'm used to from work, so I feel comfortable with the command line in a way I wasn't on a Windows machine. Today I set up a couple of aliases to easily unhide and hide hidden files. Which basically involved using sudo to edit my bash profile in Terminal and it was all quite easy and non-scary, because I've done that at work to add shortcuts to directories.
Look at me, getting all under the hood of my computer :-) Anyway, I'm still in love with this machine and becoming more impressed by what it can do with each day. It's actually a lot easier to fiddle with it (or maybe just less scary) than my windows machines were!
So I did a bit of Googling, found the way to uninstall Anaconda and clean up anything it left behind, and then installed the newest version. It was all surprisingly easy, including updating the path in my profile. So now my development environment is shiny and update to date. Plus, because I'm using conda, I can easily set up an environment with older versions of things if I need to, so working with Python is proving to be much easier than expected. Hooray for good package managers!
But mostly, this process gave me the confidence to do that kind of change in my new toy, and I'm getting a much better feel for what I'm working with.
It helps that Terminal is a Unix shell, which I'm used to from work, so I feel comfortable with the command line in a way I wasn't on a Windows machine. Today I set up a couple of aliases to easily unhide and hide hidden files. Which basically involved using sudo to edit my bash profile in Terminal and it was all quite easy and non-scary, because I've done that at work to add shortcuts to directories.
Look at me, getting all under the hood of my computer :-) Anyway, I'm still in love with this machine and becoming more impressed by what it can do with each day. It's actually a lot easier to fiddle with it (or maybe just less scary) than my windows machines were!
