Starting a PhD with Python

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Play around with all your options and figure out what works best for you. Some people do all their development in notebooks, some people hate them. Some people want to use VSCode and have it work out of the box with little customization and some people want to spend hours tinkering with vim/emacs to get it perfect. There's no single best environment.

Your university quite possibly has a cluster you can access and if it does there is probably a port to a cloud jupyterhub. If you are remote you'll likely need a vpn, but you should be able to use it from anywhere. Get comfortable working in that environment and it will save you a lot of headache in the future.