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This is the Part 4 of the tutorial for working on a Portable Development At this point in time, the latest stable version of Go version is 1.10.2, LiteIDE version is X33.3 Here is the Go Lang Website https://golang.org/ Here is the LiteIDE Website https://github.com/visualfc/liteide Here's a quick link to do the download https://dl.google.com/go/go1.10.2.windows-amd64.zip It is about 138MB in size Here is the LiteIDE download https://sourceforge.net/projects/liteide/files/x33.3/liteidex33.3.windows-qt5.6.3.zip/download It is about 25.8MB in size After the download, it is a zip file, so just unzip to a folder next to WinPython. Add the following to the Windows user environment variable ********************************************* Path = C:\dev\Go1.10.2-w64\go\bin ********************************************* This specify the go lang all except data ********************************************* GoRoot = C:\dev\Go1.10.2-w64\go\ *******************...

This is the Part 3 of the tutorial for working on a Portable Development At this point in time, the latest stable version of R version is 3.5.0, R Studio latest version 1.1.453 Here is the R Portable Website https://www.r-project.org/ Here is the R Studio Website https://www.rstudio.com Here's a quick link to do the download https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/files/R-Portable/3.5.0/R-Portable_3.5.0.paf.exe/download It is about 82MB in size Here is the R Studio download https://download1.rstudio.org/RStudio-1.1.453.zip It is about 126MB in size After the download, it is a zip file, so just unzip to a folder next to WinPython. That completes the basic installation. Jupyter Kernel Installation Goes to Windows Environment Variable Under user variables, Under Path, you need to add a new Path Example: C:\dev\R-Portable-3.5.0\App\R-Portable\bin\x64 Next, go back to WinPython and click to open WinPython Command Prompt Run R in console. Ins...

This is the Part 2 of the tutorial for working on a Portable Development At this point in time, the latest stable version of Octave version is 4.4.0 Here is the Octave Website https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Here's a quick link to do the download https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/octave-4.4.0-w64_1.zip It about 416MB in size, it will take a while to download this, depending on your internet connections. After the download, it is a zip file, so just unzip to a folder next to WinPython. That completes the basic installation. Jupyter Kernel Installation Next, go back to WinPython and click to open WinPython Command Prompt Install Octave Kernel to WinPython ********************************************* pip install octave_kernel ********************************************* Go and Edit Environment Variable for your Windows Account. Under user variables, Under Path, you need to add a new Path Example: C:\dev\Octave-4.4.0-w64\bin Under use...

This is the Part 1 of the tutorial for working on a Portable Development Not particular reason for choosing WinPython, Simply because this is convenient! At this point in time, the latest stable version of WinPython version is 3.6.5.0. At much as possible, I will stick to the stable version. Here is the WinPython Website https://winpython.github.io/ Here's a quick link to do the download https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/latest/download?source=typ_redirect It about 385MB in size, it will take a while to download this, depending on your internet connections. I prefer all my software stored in a single directory Hence, you may want to create a directory in C Drive or your Portable Drive. You may want to called it C:\dev or X:\dev Most of my following example will base on C Drive, as some companies may not even allow to have Portable Drive at all. Of course, the nice thing about Portable Drive is that is is Portable! Here are some reference s...

As part of my teaching, learning and comms,    I am doing this as part of my personal logs,  So what is Portable Development 101 (Development without any admin rights -  I have no admin rights to my office notebook) I will kick start with the installation of various languages. The following is a quick depict on what may be upcoming,  but I have not decided whether I am covering all of them  and I may add in some others languages as I see fit.