User FAQs

1) What are the main differences between the Spyder IDE and the Jupyter Notebook ?

2) What are the main IDEs that people use ?
VS Code -
PyCharm -

3) What is PYPI
PyPI stands for Python Package Index.
It is the official repository for Python packages, maintained by the Python Software Foundation.

link - pypi.org 

When you run pip install <package_name>, your system fetches the package from PyPI by default.

4) What is Conda ?
Conda is a package and environment manager, written in python, that allows you to install conda packages inside a conda environment.
Conda is an alternative to pip, but cannot consume PyPI packages.
One advantage is that it ensures consistent environments, which also means that installing is slower.
A second advantage is that it can consume non-Python packages, such as R packages or binaries (e.g. Visual Studio Runtime libraries).

5) What is Miniconda ?
Miniconda is a distribution of a conda base environment that contains the conda package manager and not much more.
This base #environment allows users to create new conda environments, install conda packages from channels and build conda packages.