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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By : Quan Nguyen
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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
1
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

Implementing web pages in PyCharm

Similar to the approach we have taken many times in this book, we will now try to contrast the topics/tools we are discussing with and without the support of PyCharm. In this section, we will examine various features in PyCharm that facilitate faster and more efficient web development with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

As for the code examples used in this section, we will be looking at the Chapter07/PyCharmSupport subfolder. First, we will discuss the features that apply to HTML and CSS.

Using HTML and CSS in PyCharm

In this subsection, we will go over a number of ways that PyCharm streamlines the process of writing HTML and CSS code. You will see that, with the help of PyCharm, working with...