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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

Customizable code completion support

All of us are familiar with code completion support from our editor/IDE in one way or another. This is the functionality that suggests potential ways to complete the line of code that you are currently typing. Text completion is not only limited to programming; we see it in word processing, texting, or typing in general. Even auto-correct functionalities in smartphones are a part of general text completion.

However, there are still some subtleties in taking advantage of the code completion support in PyCharm, specifically regarding how to adjust various options with the support, as well as how hands-on the suggestions will be. In this section, we will be looking into the advantages of using intelligent code completion functionalities while programming, and how PyCharm assists in this process.

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