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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

Section 5: Plugins and Conclusion

This section starts with Chapter 14, More Possibilities with PyCharm Plugins. Consisting of the final two chapters of this book, this section provides some parting thoughts regarding the use of PyCharm and how to make the best of it while developing your Python projects. Firstly, we will discuss the wide range of options when it comes to additional plugins that you can add to your PyCharm software. These are further extensions of PyCharm you can download and install that can help to improve your productivity even further.

In the final chapter, we will go through a compiled version of important topics and features discussed throughout this book. We will then bring this book to a close with a few general suggestions on how to effectively use PyCharm and a list of potential further reading.

This section includes the following chapters: