Resource for dummies to learn about setting up environments, source control, etc?

I have a hard time wrapping my head around how to set up programming environments. When I've downloaded tutorials, I tend to just follow whatever instructions are given in the intro to the books, and because of this I've got way too many options running on my computer that seem to cause issues sometimes (conda, pip, Docker, etc etc). My background is that I have a science PhD and we just each ran our own copies of Matlab and didn't …

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