Finished Windows Installation Instructions

installation_instructions/windows/installation_instructions.md

+# Installation Instructions for Windows
+
+This document will walk you through the steps you need to perform to install and configure **Jupyter Lab**, the development software you will use for CS220.  You need to perform 5 steps:
+
+1. Download and install Anaconda
+2. Change the Python version
+3. Enable the debugger
+4. Associate notebook files with Jupyter lab
+5. Test your configuration
+
+## 1. Download and install Anaconda
+
+[Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/) is a suite of software programs used for data science.  In a browser go to Anaconda's download page [https://www.anaconda.com/download/](https://www.anaconda.com/download/) to download the software.  You can either provide an email address and click the submit button or click the **Skip registration** to bypass providing your email.
+
+On the download page, it should have detected your operating system and provided a link at the top of the page for the proper version.
+
+![download button(images/image.png)
+
+Download and run the installer.  On the "Install for:" page select "Just Me (recommended)" and then accept the default installation folder.
+
+![Install for Just Me](images/image-4.png)
+![Keep Default Install Location](image-5.png)
+
+On the Advanced Installation Options, keep the default first and third checkmarks to create a shortcut and register Anaconda3 as the default for Python.
+
+![Keep Default Checkmarks](images/image-6.png)
+
+Finish running the installer.
+
+![Final Installation Screen](images/image-10.png)
+
+## 2. Change Python version
+
+You will be submitting your code to our grader, which is running a slightly older version of Python, version 3.10.12.  So you need to make sure you are running the same version on your computer.  Click on the windows logo and in the search box type "shell".  You should see an option to run **Windows PowerShell** where you can type commands.  Click to launch this program.  Type the command `conda install python=3.10.12` and press enter.  Follow the instructions to have it proceed and install that version of Python.  When it is finished you can check that it has installed the proper version by typing `python --version`.
+
+![Command to Install Proper Version of Python](images/image-14.png)
+
+![Proceed to Installation](images/image-13.png)
+
+![Command to Check Python Version](images/image-15.png)
+
+
+## 3. Enable the debugger
+
+One feature of Jupyter Lab that we will use this semester in the debugger.  It is disabled by default.  To enable it you will need to edit a text file.  Start by opening the file explorer
+ ![File Explorer Icon](images/image-18.png) and in the sidebar, click on *home*.
+
+![Home option in File Explorer](images/image-19.png)
+
+Browse inside the `anaconda3` folder to the `share\jupyter\kernels\python3\` folder and double click to open the kernel.json file in Notepad.
+
+![Content of anaconda3/share/jupyter/kernels/python3 folder](images/image-20.png)
+
+![Open kernel.json file with Noepad](images/image-21.png)
+
+The line that reads `"debugger": false` needs to be changed to be `"debugger": true` and then save the file.
+
+![Original content of kernel.json](images/image-16.png)
+![New content of kernel.json](images/image-17.png)
+
+## 4. Associate Notebook Files with Jupyter Lab
+
+The files that we will be working with this semester are called *Jupyter Notebook* files.  These files have a file extension of `.ipynb`.  You can make it so that when you double click on a file that ends in `.ipynb` that it will be opened by Jupyter Lab.  Download the [Test Configuration Notebook](https://git.doit.wisc.edu/cdis/cs/courses/cs220/cs220-lecture-material/-/raw/main/installation_instructions/test_configuration.ipynb?ref_type=heads&inline=false) which we will use to change the file assocation.  Then open your Downloads folder in the File Explorer.  At the top of the window, click on the **View -> Show -> File name extensions** option so you can see the file extension of the notebook file.
+
+![Show File Name Extensions](images/image-22.png)
+
+
+Now double click to try and open the notebook file.  It will ask you to select an app to open the file.  Click on the **Choose an app on your PC** and browse to your username and open the anaconda3/Scripts folder and select `jupyter-lab.exe`.
+
+![Select an App to open .ipynb files](images/image-23.png)
+
+![Scripts folder inside ananconda3 folder](images/image-24.png)
+
+![jupyter-lab.exe file](images/image-25.png)
+
+Now click the **jupyter-lab.exe** option and click the `Always` button.
+
+![Selecting jupyter-lab.exe always](images/image-26.png)
+
+## 5. Test the configuration
+
+Now, whenever you double-click on a Jupyter Notebook file, it should open that file in Jupyter Lab.  Follow the steps in the notebook to check your configuration and your software should be installed and configured correctly.
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