Setup – Development Environment

🧰 Tools You’ll Need

• Python 3.10+ – Core programming language
• pip – Python package manager
• VS Code – Recommended code editor
• Jupyter Notebook (optional) – For interactive experiments

📦 Install Python & pip

Download Python from python.org and make sure to check “Add Python to PATH” during installation.

🧪 Verify Installation

python --version
pip --version

📁 Create Your Project Folder

mkdir ai-ml-projects
cd ai-ml-projects

🧪 Create a Virtual Environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use: venv\Scripts\activate

📚 Install Required Packages

pip install numpy pandas matplotlib scikit-learn

🧠 Optional: Install Jupyter Notebook

pip install notebook
jupyter notebook

✅ You're Ready!

Your environment is now ready to run ML experiments and build projects. You can start with Step 2.1 – Linear Regression.