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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By : Quan Nguyen
Book Image

Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By: Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

JetBrain’s PyCharm is the most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used by the Python community thanks to its numerous features that facilitate faster, more accurate, and more productive programming practices. However, the abundance of options and customizations can make PyCharm seem quite intimidating. Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm starts with PyCharm’s installation and configuration process, and systematically takes you through a number of its powerful features that can greatly improve your productivity. You’ll explore code automation, version control, graphical debugging/testing, management of virtual environments, and much more. Finally, you’ll delve into specific PyCharm features that support web development and data science, two of the fastest growing applications in Python programming. These include the integration of the Django framework as well as the extensive support for IPython and Jupyter Notebook. By the end of this PyCharm book, you will have gained extensive knowledge of the tool and be able to implement its features and make the most of its support for your projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Section 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Section 3: Web Development in PyCharm
14
Section 4: Data Science with PyCharm
18
Section 5: Plugins and Conclusion

Introduction to JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

To understand and appreciate the benefits PyCharm brings to the process of web development, we will examine the general use of the three most common web development languages—JavaScript, HTML, and CSS—in this section. If you are already familiar with these languages, feel free to skip ahead to the next section to see how PyCharm supports them.

The examples discussed in this section are included in the Chapter07/Intro subfolder of the code repository for this book.

Understanding the importance of HTML and CSS

In general, HTML and CSS serve to provide customizations for the appearance of a web application or page. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) concerns itself with the...