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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have learned the basics of the three most common web development languages: JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. While HTML and CSS deal with the display and styling of a web page, JavaScript is mainly used to process and manipulate data that will produce the final content of the page.

PyCharm offers numerous options in terms of streamlining web development processes. HTML and CSS can be written and edited with higher accuracy and speed using PyCharm's boilerplate code generation, documentation viewing features, integration of Emmet, and live editing options. JavaScript, on the other hand, is supported by multiple versions, a hands-on, graphic debugging toolset, as well as a wide range of available JS frameworks.

With this knowledge, we are now able to start developing simple, bare-bones web applications with PyCharm. However, this process does not...