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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
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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

Summary

We have thoroughly discussed some of the most powerful features in PyCharm that allow us to work with databases seamlessly. These include the ability to create, retrieve data from, and make changes to database tables via console queries and a graphical interface with the table view. Furthermore, PyCharm offers the ability to create diagrams that visually explain database relations, as well as query logic. All of these features combined help streamline the process of working with and analyzing databases and their relations.

By using the tools we have discussed, Python web developers can effortlessly interact and work with databases from within PyCharm. Given the important role that database management plays in medium- to large-sized web projects, this ability will significantly improve the level of productivity for any web developers using Python.

In the next chapter, we...