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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

There is no REST in a wicked stateless world

I’ve heard it said that computers are the dumbest creatures on the planet. They only do exactly as they are told, and they take your instructions in an extremely literal way. This is what makes programming a computer so difficult. You must choose exactly the right syntax and structure your ideas precisely and succinctly because any ambiguity will result in a bug.

There is only one way to make our lives hard, and that is to base our work and our careers on a system with the attention span of a fruit fly. I’m talking about web servers, of course. The term web server can mean two different things: it can refer to hardware or software. The hardware is any computer system running the software. I’ve seen people build web server hardware that fits in a matchbox, and I’ve seen web server hardware fill expansive rack mount systems in specially cooled data centers. In truth, for us at least, the hardware is the boring...