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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

Testing, debugging, and profiling are high-level tasks we can use to analyze applications to look for improvements in correctness and performance, but they can be quite confusing to beginner developers. PyCharm offers straightforward and intuitive interfaces for these processes, making them more accessible and streamlined.

Unit testing is the process of making sure the individual components of a large system work as intended. PyCharm has convenient commands to generate test skeletons/boilerplate code that usually takes time for developers to write manually. While testing a program, it is important to consider expected faults, as well as the obvious tests for intended functionality.

In a debugging session, developers attempt to narrow down and identify the causes of bugs and errors that are detected during testing. With a graphical interface, combined with various options to track the values of variables throughout a program, PyCharm allows us to debug our programs dynamically...