Welcome to Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm, and congratulations on taking the first step in exploring the powerful and dynamic functionalities that the most popular Python IDE, PyCharm, provides. Throughout this book, we will be familiarizing ourselves with the general interface of PyCharm, various customizations of PyCharm's functionalities to best support different types of projects, and options to integrate additional features into a base Python project.
This chapter first talks about the specifics of IDEs in programming and an overview of what PyCharm is and what its general options provide. We will then discuss the usage of PyCharm among the Python community and outline several reasons for PyCharm's popularity in the community. This discussion will help us focus on why PyCharm is such a great...