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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
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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

Throughout this chapter, we examined PyCharm's features regarding various aspects of programming, including code analysis, code completion, refactoring, and documenting. In all of these processes, PyCharm's intelligent code analyzer provides smart and convenient options for editing and fixing problems in your code in real-time and in a dynamic way.

Aside from a wide number of options the intelligent code analyzer can support, PyCharm also allows users to customize the behavior of the analyzer to their liking. This can be achieved in various sections of the general settings. Overall, these support features look to improve your productivity as a developer in a way that is customized and beneficial to you.

In the next chapter, we will focus on a particular aspect of programming: version control. We will learn about the specifics of the version control process with...