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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
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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

A Python programmer typically works on a data science project in two ways—writing a traditional Python script or using a Jupyter Notebook, both of which are heavily supported by PyCharm. Specifically, the SciView panel in PyCharm is a comprehensive and dynamic way to view, manage, and inspect data within a data science project. It offers a great way for us to display visualizations that have been produced by Python scripts as well as to inspect the values within Pandas DataFrames and NumPy arrays.

On the other hand, Jupyter notebooks are a great tool for facilitating iterative development in Python, allowing users to make incremental steps toward analyzing and extracting insights from their datasets. Jupyter notebooks are also well supported by PyCharm, being able to be edited directly inside the PyCharm editor. This allows us to skip the middle step of using a...