Greetings Melody,

I would use an environment manager, such as Anaconda (which runs the open-source Conda engine under the hood). Unlike closed-source software computer languages (e.g., MATLAB), Python is maintained primarily by the community. That means that all of the language's packages/libraries/dependencies are constantly changing and being updated and, therefore, not always compatible with each other. Python environment managers make sure that all packages can operate with each other.

So, I suggest downloading Anaconda, installing it, and opening the Anaconda Navigator application. It will open in the "base" environment. Press the "Environment" tab on the left and then press the "Create" button from the bottom (it is recommended to create a new environment and not use the "base" environment for coding). You will be prompted to choose the version of Python that the environment will use and to give the environment a name. I suggest choosing the latest version (3.11). Anaconda will now create a new environment.

Go back to the "Home" tab. Make sure that the new environment's name is selected on the dropdown menu from the top next to "on". You will see several icons of popular Python data analysis packages. Among them, you will see "Jupyter Lab". Press "Install". Anaconda will install all the required dependencies. After that, you can press "Launch" next to Jupyter Lab's icon and it will launch on you browser.

Enjoy,

Eli

Follow these steps:

1. Open Terminal: You can find Terminal in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder, or you can use Spotlight Search (Cmd + Space) and type "Terminal" to launch it.

1. Install Homebrew: Homebrew is a package manager for macOS that makes it easy to install and manage software packages. Copy and paste the following command into Terminal and press Enter:

```

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

```

This command will download and install Homebrew on your MacBook Air.

1. Install Python: JupyterLab requires Python to be installed. Homebrew can be used to install Python. In Terminal, run the following command to install Python:

```

brew install python

```

This command will download and install Python on your system.

2. Install JupyterLab: Once Python is installed, you can use the pip package manager to install JupyterLab. In Terminal, run the following command:

```

pip install jupyterlab

```

This command will download and install JupyterLab and its dependencies.

3. Launch JupyterLab: After the installation is complete, you can launch JupyterLab by running the following command in Terminal:

```

jupyter lab

```

JupyterLab will start, and it will open a browser window with the JupyterLab interface.

Good luck!!