HOW TO INSTALL TENSORFLOW [ (import tensorflow as tf)]

Recently I wanted to learn Tensorflow so I took some time and started focusing on the Tensorflow . In this post I’ll walk you through the installation process of Tensorflow (CPU version).

Here are the simple steps on

How to get started with Tensorflow on Windows?

• Download Anaconda here and get it installed in your system as per your specifications.
• After having Anaconda installed , create a virtual environment. To create that open command prompt and type the command
  > conda create -n tensorflow python=3.6
• This helps in creating a conda environment named as tensorflow having python version 3.6
• Before we can work with our conda environment that has just been created , we have to activate it using the command below:-
  >activate tensorflow
  We will see the following screenshot in our command prompt

Activating Tensorflow Environment

• Now to install cpu version of tensorflow inside our created environment use the following command:-
  >pip install — ignore-installed — upgrade tensorflow
  The screen will be populated with all the necessary dependencies that are needed to be downloaded for tensorflow :-

Loading dependencies for Tensorflow

• Below are the points to check whether we have successfully installed tensorflow :-

1. In the command prompt start a python session using the command >python
2. Import the tensorflow package using :-
   > import tensorflow as tf
3. Check for tensorflow version that has been installed
   > tf.__version__
   Above three steps has been summarized in the snapshot below:-

Check for Tensorflow installation

• At any point of time if you want to get out of python session use the command
  >quit()

quit()

And we are out of python session.

• To install any package within the environment use the command (tensorflow)> conda install any_package_name
  where any_package_name is the name of the package you want to install.
• To work in Jupyter’s interactive environment using tensorflow , use the command
  (tensorflow)> conda install jupyter
• Once Jupyter is installed we can work with it by activating the Jupyter notebook using the command
  (tensorflow)> jupyter notebook

In my next post , I’ll give a light introduction on how to use Tensorflow.

Untill then Keep Learning, Keep Rocking .