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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

Questions

  1. What are the major characteristics of Django, and how do they set Django apart from another popular Python web framework, Flask?
  2. What is the purpose of the PyCharm manage.py panel in a Django project, and how does one open and utilize it?
  3. What is the purpose of the Django admin interface? How does one create an instance of a model (that is, a new entry in a database table) in this interface? How does the process change if the model references another model?
  4. What is the purpose of the run/debug configuration in PyCharm in the context of running a Django server?
  5. Does PyCharm's code completion logic only apply to Python code in Django projects?
  6. What is the significance of being able to switch between Django views and corresponding templates in PyCharm?