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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)
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Section 1: The Basics of PyCharm
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Section 2: Improving Your Productivity
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Section 3: Web Development in PyCharm
14
Section 4: Data Science with PyCharm
18
Section 5: Plugins and Conclusion

The background of PyCharm

Let's begin by discussing the topic of the book—PyCharm. First, we will discuss the Python language as it is the only reason why you would choose to use PyCharm in the first place. After this, it is important to start the conversation about PyCharm by pointing out the fact that there are considerable discussions surrounding the question of whether it is appropriate to use an IDE for Python programming.

Unlike many other programming languages, Python (as you already know) can be edited using just a simple text editor, due to the simplicity and readability of the code. You can then instruct a Python interpreter to execute a text file containing Python code and a Python program is thus complete.

Why would we want to use a heavy and complex IDE for Python to achieve the same result? In the following subsections, we will address this question by...