Installing Anaconda and Python

Anaconda is a free and open source efficient distribution that provides easy package management and deployment for the programming languages R and Python. Anaconda focuses on data science and deep learning applications and provides over 6 million users with hundreds of packages and support for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Installing Anaconda is easy and simply requires downloading the installation wizard for a target Python version. We are going to download Anaconda's installation wizard for Python 3.5. The installation wizard can be downloaded on Anaconda's website at https://www.anaconda.com/download/.

After following the wizard instructions and installing Anaconda, we are going to update all Anaconda packages using the conda command. To do so, open Anaconda's Command-Line Interface (CLI) and type the following commands:

conda update conda
conda update –all