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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 5

  1. Version control denotes the process of using a specific system to record and save changes and overall progress in directories and files so that a programmer can come back to it later. If multiple separate changes have been applied to a project that is under version control, you can even switch between these different changes (versions) in the development process.
  2. Version control can offer the following benefits to programmers:
  • Being able to revert projects back to previous versions when a change is not desirable (without having to manually change the project code)
  • Having backups on the cloud, which allows us to avoid losing code when local systems are damaged
  • Being able to collaborate with others in a systematic way
  1. When you are using version control with Git, there is a specific workflow that you need to follow: creating a GitHub repository, initializing a local...