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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

Downloading, installing, and registration

Let's start with a disclaimer—this section is solely concerned with the process of downloading and registering the PyCharm software in a computer system. If you have successfully installed and set up PyCharm on your computer already, feel free to jump to the next section, where we will be discussing some initial configuration for PyCharm.

System requirements

Before we walk through the process of installing PyCharm, we need to make sure that our system has the requirements to install and run the software. You can find the complete list of these requirements online, but the most noteworthy ones are as follows:

  • We must have at least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
  • We must...