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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

Starting a web project in PyCharm

To build a blog application with the Django web development framework in PyCharm, it is recommended that you follow the discussions in this chapter and create the project on your own system. That way, you will be able to experience first-hand the support options that PyCharm offers during the process of building the application.

With that said, all the code for this project is included in the Chapter10/mysite folder of this book's repository, which you can use as a reference point while following our discussions. If you are already familiar with the various topics we've discussed in this chapter, you can also simply make use of that folder as a base for your web project and plug in additional features.

Furthermore, note that I will be making many references to the topics we discussed in previous chapters regarding Django and general...