Intro to python and jupyter

[glstott]

Draft of "Introduction to Python and Jupyter Lab" episode.

• I copied much of the content from the Introduction to R and R Studio lesson in the DC Ecology R lesson. Then, I modified the relevant components of the text.
• For this lesson, mirroring the R episode was not challenging since there were few differences other than the interface and details on how things function.
• A good chunk of the old material was removed, but as Jose suggested, it will be best to start fresh, then add back what is missing afterwards as needed.
• Jupyter Lab interface is a bit more difficult to describe since it isn't broken out into the panels of RStudio, I'd love extra attention on that section to see if I missed important bits or if phrasing is hard to follow.

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