update SW instructions to run a notebook

[bertdv]

At the BMLIP homepage the following SW instructions are given:

- Please install Miscrosoft's VS code editor and add the Jupyter notebook extension.
- Please install Julia version 1.9 on your machine and then add the Julia extension in VS code.

I have a new machine and I did this. I still could not run the notebooks for my lessons in the VS code editor. I had to add the IJulia package to Julia, and then run Pkg.build("IJulia") in the Julia prompt, otherwise Jupyter cannot find the Julia kernel to run the notebook. This is probably obvious to you, but technically the instructions above are insufficient to run the notebooks in VS code. This will lead to frustration.

Please update the software instructions on the homepage to the exact preparations that a user needs (from scratch) in order to run the notebooks in the VS code editor.

[wouterwln]

Are you running Jupyter, or are you opening notebooks in VSCode? I don't have an IJulia installation but I can open the notebooks in the VSC editor. However, it's difficult for me to demo this since I don't have a "clean" Julia install. Any ideas @wmkouw ?

[wmkouw]

When I tested it in a clean environment last year, VSCode downloaded IJulia automatically when I wanted to start a julia kernel in Jupyter. I don't know why this didn't happen on your end. But I will check the procedure and make sure the instructions are exact.

[wmkouw]

I extended the software installation instructions, see https://github.com/biaslab/biaslab-hugo/commit/0262c47fcf664be1757a0792eaac47b3dafc6de3. I tested them with an Ubuntu distro and a Windows 10 VM. I can't start a Mac OS VM since I don't have a product key. But I presume the Linux instructions will work for Mac as well.