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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

Your Next Steps with PyCharm

PyCharm’s features are so extensive, and improvements from JetBrains come so rapidly that it’s been hard to keep up.

In this, my parting chapter, I want to do a few more things to try to do justice to this amazing piece of software. In this chapter, we’ll cover the following:

  • I’ll do the obligatory wrap-up by briefly summarizing and commenting on our journey together so far.
  • I’ll cover a few cool features to help with your productivity that just didn’t fit neatly into the chapter topics presented so far.
  • I’ll cover some cool new features that were introduced over the course of the 8 months it took me to write the book. I’ve been covering version 2023.1, and I have avoided updating it so I can stay consistent with screenshots of the UI used throughout the book. The 2023.2 release is out and there are some amazing changes, including a beta of the new AI Assistant!
  • I’ll raise...