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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
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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

Getting started with PyCharm projects

So far, we have only looked at the settings of PyCharm. In this section, we will go beyond the welcome window and settings tabs to create a new PyCharm project from scratch. To create a new Python project within PyCharm, simply choose the corresponding option in the welcome window, as shown here:

Creating a new project

After choosing this option, the process of creating a PyCharm project will start. This process consists of multiple distinct steps, each of which specifies important customizations for the project we are creating.

Additionally, note that all the code and project structures that have been generated during the discussions in this book can be found in this book's GitHub repository at github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Application-Development-with-PyCharm.

It is encouraged that you follow along with the discussions and create...