How to use Pluto notebooks and set Julia environments

In this video I show you how to use Pluto notebooks and how to generate and activate a Julia environment for a project. It is helpful to keep separate environments for each of your Julia projects. In this way, you avoid any package dependency conflicts. You also keep your base Julia installation clear. I use the Julia package manager, Pkg, to generate and instantiate new environments. Only packages relevant to a specific project are installed into the environment for the project. I do install Pluto into my base Julia environment and in the video you will see how to instantiate an environment inside of a Pluto notebook. Pluto notebooks are different from Jupyter notebooks in that they maintain an active state across all cells. If code in one cell is update, all other relevant cells are updated to that state immediately.