.. _installation:

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First steps
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* The easiest way to try this package is using a web-based notebook:

|colab|

.. |colab| image:: https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg
   :target: https://colab.research.google.com/github/JesseBonanno/IndeterminateBeam/blob/main/docs/examples/simple_demo.ipynb

* You can also download and install the ``indeterminatebeam`` package, which runs on Python 3.

  * If you do not have a Python 3 interpreter on your machine, you can install the last version following the instructions in `this tutorial <https://realpython.com/installing-python/>`_.
  * Once you have Python 3, you can open a terminal and install the package with this one-liner::

      python3 -m pip install --user indeterminatebeam

    **NOTE**: You may need to replace ``python3`` above by the path to your Python 3 executable, or simply ``python`` if you are running Windows.

This project is completely open source, and the code can be found in this `GitHub repository
<https://github.com/JesseBonanno/IndeterminateBeam/>`_.