diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7eade253..be3dead7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 *.zip
 data/
 .ipynb_checkpoints
+pytorch_tut_env/
+.mypy_cache/
 
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65dbc699
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "python.pythonPath": "pytorch_tut_env/bin/python"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a182c625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+pylint
+yapf
+pytest
+mypy
+
+jupyter
+jupyterlab
+scipy
+scikit-learn
+scikit-image
+pandas
+numpy
+matplotlib
+torch
+torchvision
+torchtext
+spacy
+
+requests
+dash
+dash-core-components
+dash-html-components