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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

Chapter 1

  1. An editor is a simple, minimal platform for editing text without any additional highlighting or aligning functionalities. An example of an editor is Notepad. On the other hand, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a special piece of software that has various features integrated within it; these typically include syntax highlighting, automatic indention, debugging tools, and much more.
  2. Development in Python does not require significant boilerplate code, which is one of the aspects of programming that an IDE sets out to solve. Some have argued that relying on an IDE too much can make programmers forget—or altogether prevent them from learning—the core principles and syntax of a given programming language.
  3. A good strategy is to start off by using a simple editor to familiarize yourself with the language and its core syntax structure; once a good...