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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 8

  1. Some notable components of the Django framework are as follows:
  • Models, which offer the ability to implement database objects in an object-oriented way. Django also handles the implementation of the corresponding database table for a model in the backend automatically.
  • The admin interface, which is generated solely by Django to have a straightforward yet extensive set of functionalities.
  • Templates, which can be viewed as placeholder HTML code. Django views can render a given template while sending information to it so that placeholders within the template will be populated by that information dynamically.

Overall, Django offers extensive support for Python web applications; you can build a complex, fully functional website using Django, even with limited effort. On the other hand, Flask is a lightweight web framework that consists of simple, intuitive APIs that can...