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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
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have covered various topics to conclude our book. First, we looked at various miscellaneous topics in PyCharm, such as using remote PyCharm interpreters and automation with PyCharm macros and file watchers. These features nicely add to the topics that we discussed in previous chapters, and the combination of these features allows you to further improve your productivity.

Then we reminded ourselves of the big ideas and discussions throughout this book. These include an introduction to PyCharm, general options when it comes to using the software, and specific usage in web development and scientific computing—two of the most common project types in Python programming. This walk-through offers a high-level perspective on the discussions included in this book, thus helping us, again, solidify the knowledge we have gained.

Finally, we went over various...