Q: the different between ANACONDA environment and ATOM I take some online courses on Udemy and one of the instructors use Anaconda and Jupiter notebook, another one use Atom. 
I have no programming background so please explain to me the commons and differences between them.


A: Anaconda is a way to distribute Python, where Jupyter and Atom are ways to interact with a python interpreter. Atom is a traditional text editor used to just write python code, and Jupyter is a lot more complicated, it's more of a toolkit revolving around math, science, and big data, and allows you to write/run python/julia/r/scala/etc scripts.
