For in-class activities for this course I'm trying out a tool called Jupyter. First copy the starter code for this activity to an appropriate place in your home folder. You can get the code from
~tvandrun/Public/cs394/ica1-libs
The notebook itself is contained in the file lab1-libraries.ipynb.
Then start a Jupyter notebook in the folder
with that file.
Jupyter will open in a browser window.
Select lab1-libraries.ipynb and continue from there.
jupyter notebook --ip=127.0.0.1 &
As you go along, you are encouraged to look things up in the documentation of the libraries used:
Numpy home and reference