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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

Summary

A scientific project in PyCharm is created with a general structure that is common among projects in real life, including good practices such as a data folder that is excluded from version control, the README.md file, and the requirements.txt file. As you can imagine, having to manually create this setup for every project can prove to be difficult and time-consuming. This feature helps PyCharm users get right down to the development process after the project has been created so that they don’t have to worry about taking care of miscellaneous details. This will allow us to be faster and more productive in our development workflow.

Additionally, PyCharm’s Scientific mode includes various features that support the development process of scientific computing or data science projects, namely the Documentation and SciView panels. In combination with this mode, you can also take advantage of other powerful features, such as code cells and the CSV plugin, to streamline...