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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 15

  1. Using the remote interpreter means that our local computer does not need to execute any command, thus saving us some computing resources. Moreover, since the interpreter is on a remote server, other programmers might have access to it as well. In other words, many people have the ability to share the same Python interpreter, which would help with ensuring reproducibility.
  2. A macro is a sequence of instructions that are to be executed in order. If you have a specific action that consists of multiple steps, a macro is a way to automate that sequence of steps. In practice, you can create macros to automate code-editing sequences and refactoring tasks, depending on your own work and needs.
  3. File watchers, in general, are tools that allow us to monitor the changes that are taking place in a given file and apply a specific action to that file when a change does take place...