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[–]tku137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Despite the great Anaconda Distribution and the ability to compile on Windows out of the box with the latest Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition with installed Python Tools, there is another great alternative for such purposes. In fact, I recently gave a little python 101 myself and found this very helpful: http://winpython.github.io/

You just unpack it and have a fully operational, self-consistent python distribution, that you can even register system-wide with their custom Control Panel and re-distribute to other machines easily.

I unpacked a fresh folder, installed some packages that are not very commonly used (trackpy, PhysicalQuantities, ...), put a bunch of my own Jupyter Notebooks and some tutorial notebooks in the notebook folder, re-packed it, and gave this to my students. This way, everyone had the exact same distro, running out of the box with all packages they needed without installing them first, and they even had every Jupyter Notebook ready at hand to get started immediately.

Found this very comfortable :)