I am new to Python and I am not a programmer. But recently I have decided to learn Python to apply it to financial quantitative analysis - this is my primary goal.
I initially started by installing and using OpenBBTerminal with miniconda. I first tried to use Anaconda, but my Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 workstation kep crashing, so I switched to miniconda and it worked fine. I also installed Jupyter Notebooks and multiple libraries, Visual Studio and Kate.
I started the Replit 100 Days of Python challenge to learn some Python coding basics.
But the code is not the biggest challenge for me. The biggest problem I faced was getting all these packages, apps, libraries and other stuff I don’t even know the nomenclature for to work together. I would install a library to use with OpenBBTerminal, then try to access it later via Jupyter, and get “no library found”.
My workstation recently had some issues and I decided to do a clean install of Ubuntu Budgie. This is my chance to make lemonade from lemons and get all this Python stuff installed in an organized fashion. I don’t want 3 copies of the yfinance and numpy libraries on my hard drive. I have tried searching for answers to this problem, but haven’t found much.
Can someone point me in the right direction here? Documentation, articles, hints - all would be appreciated. Order of installation and where to install - so that everything works together - are big questions for me. I don’t mind doing some work to get this right. TIA for your help.