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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed the process of downloading, installing, and setting up PyCharm in our computer system (including how to register a license if we are using the Professional edition). We have seen a subset of the features and functionalities PyCharm offers when it comes to customizing our workspace, including the theme for our PyCharm, as well as the customizations for keymaps and shortcuts. Overall, PyCharm gives you total control over customizing various mechanisms, making it a dynamic and flexible development environment.

We have also learned how to create a minimal Python project, create Python files, and execute programs in Python. This officially concludes the first part of this book, where we consider the basics of PyCharm. Again, the information you have learned about here will help you navigate through simple usage of PyCharm, but there is so...