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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

Best plugins to use for your PyCharm projects

With the basic idea of how to install a PyCharm plugin in mind, let's go through a list of some of the most popular PyCharm plugins and see the support they can provide for our projects. Some of the plugins we are discussing might have already been mentioned in previous chapters, so feel free to skip this section.

Note that for each of the plugins to be discussed, I will be including a URL to the home page of the plugin on the official website of JetBrains, where more information about these plugins as well as ratings and comments can be found.

First, let's start with a plugin for database management.

Using Database Navigator

We saw some level of database support in PyCharm...