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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

Taking a step back

After a long journey, it is always important to look back and see what we have achieved. This is especially true for this book, which consists of many different topics and discussions on the various features and functionalities in PyCharm. Doing this will help us review and solidify what we have learned so far.

The first few chapters introduced the software and the idea of using an IDE to write Python code. Regarding the differences between PyCharm and other development tools, PyCharm tends to come out on top in many respects. However, not everyone is ready to take full advantage of the software; in other words, PyCharm is only applicable for a specific group of users who have familiarized themselves with the main workflow of Python programming. This is to say that you should make sure that PyCharm is indeed the most suitable tool for your purposes, before fully...