This guide covers how to set up your computer to be able to write code!
If you use a Linux distribution, you're in luck, your OS is open-source and the whole neuroscience software landscape is built around it!
Completely out of luck! You're also a UNIX system so technically you could do everything a Linux distribution can, but Apple has lots of proprietary hardware and software components and subtle changes will usually prevent you from running things out of the box.
However, you can install Docker, and run things in a Linux container!
Also out of luck, but you get a fancier integration than Docker using WSL.
Integrated Development Environments integrate the code editor with the development environment and help you run and analyse code while you write it.
Get yourself one of the following:
- Atom (https://atom.io/ free lean editor easily extendable by installing packages)
- VSCode (https://code.visualstudio.com/ free IDE, also extendable by packages but comes with more fleshed out interface by default)
- PyCharm (proprietary JetBrains IDE, see if you have a license)
A software stack is the collection of tools you'll need to run your neuroscience experiments. In our laboratory this comprises:
- Python
- NEURON
- NEST
- MPI
- BSB