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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

Django in PyCharm

PyCharm provides powerful and convenient support for Django projects through various functionalities. Following an example of an online library containing information on books and authors, we will be examining these functionalities one by one. After this section, we will have a better understanding of the way PyCharm facilitates the process of developing web applications in Django.

You can additionally find the complete code for this section in the Chapter08/mysite subfolder in the repository of the book. Note that, if you do decide to import the whole project instead of doing the steps yourself while following the discussion, you will need to create an appropriate virtual environment for the project to be imported. With that in mind, you can utilize the requirements.txt file of the project to correctly install all dependencies.

(You can head back to the Importing...