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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

By : Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen
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Book Image

Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

In the quest to develop robust, professional-grade software with Python and meet tight deadlines, it’s crucial to have the best tools at your disposal. In this second edition of Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm, you’ll learn tips and tricks to work at a speed and proficiency previously reserved only for elite developers. To achieve that, you’ll be introduced to PyCharm, the premiere professional integrated development environment for Python programmers among the myriad of IDEs available. Regardless of how Python is utilized, whether for general automation scripting, utility creation, web applications, data analytics, machine learning, or business applications, PyCharm offers tooling that simplifies complex tasks and streamlines common ones. In this book, you'll find everything you need to harness PyCharm's full potential and make the most of Pycharm's productivity shortcuts. The book comprehensively covers topics ranging from installation and customization to web development, database management, and data analysis pipeline development helping you become proficient in Python application development in diverse domains. By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered the remarkable capabilities of PyCharm and how you can achieve a new level of capability and productivity.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Part 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Part 3: Web Development in PyCharm
15
Part 4: Data Science with PyCharm
19
Part 5: Plugins and Conclusion

HTML project types in PyCharm Professional

Earlier, I mentioned that I wanted to start you off with a basic empty project with some simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code we created from scratch. PyCharm Professional offers new additional pure HTML project types. By pure, I mean they don’t use any modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular. These modern frameworks represent a paradigm shift in frontend development. A pure HTML project will continue to use very traditional DOM manipulation, as we did in our JavaScript example earlier. To change the content of our click counter span, we used this code:

Document.getElementById

Since client-side JavaScript like this runs in the browser, the code has access to the document object, which is effectively the browser window. JavaScript can manipulate the currently loaded document or even update the contents of the browser window itself.

Modern JavaScript frameworks no longer manipulate the DOM. Instead, they rely on...