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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By : Quan Nguyen
Book Image

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

Version control in PyCharm

In this section, we will study various features in PyCharm that facilitate the process of version control with Git and GitHub. As a prerequisite of this exercise, go on to your GitHub account to create a new repository to be the one associated with this current local project. You can name this repository however you like (GitTest, PyCharmVersionControlTest, or whatever).

Also note that while creating the GitHub repository, you can specify it to be private, which will prevent other people from seeing and accessing the repository—after all, this is a playground repository solely for learning purposes.

Next, either create a new Pure Python project in PyCharm and enter the following sample code into a Python script inside that project or import the Chapter05 folder from our book repository as a project into your PyCharm:

if __name__ == '__main__...