Google Colaboratory, commonly known as Colab, is a tool developed by Google Research that lets users write and run Python code directly in their web browser. It’s beneficial for machine learning, data analysis, and educational purposes. Technically, Colab is a cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and offers free access to computing resources, including GPUs, making it easy and powerful.
I present my demonstrations and labs in Colab, which is entirely online. However, you can use any Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports Jupyter Notebooks (.ipynb files), such as Anaconda or PyCharm, which is my desktop preference.
