Effective PyCharm: Learn the PyCharm IDE with a Hands-on Approach (Treading on Python)
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Hello and welcome to Effective PyCharm. In this book, we're going to look at all the different features of one of the very best environments for interacting and creating Python code, PyCharm. PyCharm is an IDE (integrated development environment) and this book will teach you how you can make the most of this super powerful editor.The first thing we are going to talk about is why do we want to use an IDE in the first place? What value does a relatively heavyweight application like PyCharm bring and why would we want to use it? There are many features that make PyCharm valuable. However, let's begin by talking about the various types of editors we can use and what the trade-offs are there.We're going to start by focusing on creating new projects and working with all the files in them. You'll see there's a bunch of configuration switcheswe can set to be more effective. Then we're going to jump right intowhat I would say is the star of the show—the editor.If you're writing code, you need an editor. You will be writing a lot of code. This includes typing new text and manipulating existing text. The editor has to be awesome and aid you in these tasks. We're going to focus on all the cool features that the PyCharm editor offers. We'll see that source control in particular, Git and Subversion are deeply integrated into PyCharm. There are all sorts of powerful things we can do beyond git, including actual GitHub integration. We are going to focus on source control and the features right inside the IDE.PyCharm is great at *refactoring*. Refactoring code is changing our code to restructure it in a different way, to use a slightly different algorithm, while not actually changing the behavior of the code. There are many powerful techniques in PyCharm that you can use to do this. Because it understands all of your files at once, it can safely refactor. It will even refactor doc strings and other items that could be overlooked without a deep understanding of code structures.There is powerful database tooling in PyCharm. You can interact with most databases including SQLite, MySQL, and Postgres. You can edit the data, edit the schemes, run queries and more. Because PyCharm has a deep understanding of your code, there is even integration between your database schema and the Python text editor. Note that PyCharm has a free version and a professional version. The database features are only available in the professional version.PyCharm is excellent at building web applications using libraries like Django, Pyramid, or Flask. It also has a full JavaScript editor and environment so you can use TypeScript or CoffeeScript. We'll look into both server-side and client-side features.PyCharm has a great visual debugger, and we are going to look at all the different features of it. You can use it to debug and understand your application. It has powerful breakpoint operations and data visualization that typically editors don't have.Profiling is a common task if you want to understand how your code is running. If your application is slow and you want it to go faster, you shouldn't guess where it is slow. PyCharm makes it easy to look at the code determine what it fast and slow, rather than relying on our intuition which may be flawed. PyCharm has some tremendous built-in visual types of tools for us to fundamentally understand the performance of our app.PyCharm has built-in test runners for pytest, unittest, and a number of Python testing frameworks. If you are doing any unit testing or integration testing, PyCharm will come to your aid. For example, one feature you can turn on is auto test execution. If you are changing certain parts of your code, PyCharm will automatically re-run the tests. There are a couple of additional tools that don't really land in any of the above categories. There is a chapter with the additional tools at the end. Review: Well written with good content, lacking in presentation, print quality for $50 - Good on content, lacking in presentation and price. I like the feature walkthroughs by example. It is well written with clear, concise sections. The drawback is for a $49 paperback you would expect better printing. All the screenshots are greyscale with low resolution. Seeing the text in a screenshot like a menu option, or navigation tree can be difficult at times. The stock of the paper and overall print is more like a <$20 book then a $50 book. I like having a lightweight paperback that you can carry around and use as a reference guide. Again though for that price it leaves me with a sense of wanting more. If it was a $20 book it would be 4+ stars but for $50 I have to give it 3. Review: Not a $50 book; very dissappointed - It pains me to write this review because I am a Michael Kennedy supporter. I've listened to the Talk Python podcast for a couple years and did his PyCharm course. I had high hopes for the book but sadly was really disappointed. One huge pet peeve of mine is spelling and grammatical errors in published material. It says to me that the author and publisher just don't care and are mailing it in. There are errors on almost every page ok, maybe every other page). Further, the overall presentation of the material was disjointed. Lastly, a few of the tips and tricks just simply don't work. Could be just me, but I've been a developer for 4 decades and have been using PyCharm for years, so I don't think it's all me. If the price of the book was 10 or 15 bucks, I wouldn't have bothered with the review. But this book is definitely not worthy of a 50 dollar price tag. I will be returning it. Sorry Michael. :-(
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| Customer Reviews | 3.7 out of 5 stars 28 Reviews |
S**D
Well written with good content, lacking in presentation, print quality for $50
Good on content, lacking in presentation and price. I like the feature walkthroughs by example. It is well written with clear, concise sections. The drawback is for a $49 paperback you would expect better printing. All the screenshots are greyscale with low resolution. Seeing the text in a screenshot like a menu option, or navigation tree can be difficult at times. The stock of the paper and overall print is more like a <$20 book then a $50 book. I like having a lightweight paperback that you can carry around and use as a reference guide. Again though for that price it leaves me with a sense of wanting more. If it was a $20 book it would be 4+ stars but for $50 I have to give it 3.
I**I
Not a $50 book; very dissappointed
It pains me to write this review because I am a Michael Kennedy supporter. I've listened to the Talk Python podcast for a couple years and did his PyCharm course. I had high hopes for the book but sadly was really disappointed. One huge pet peeve of mine is spelling and grammatical errors in published material. It says to me that the author and publisher just don't care and are mailing it in. There are errors on almost every page ok, maybe every other page). Further, the overall presentation of the material was disjointed. Lastly, a few of the tips and tricks just simply don't work. Could be just me, but I've been a developer for 4 decades and have been using PyCharm for years, so I don't think it's all me. If the price of the book was 10 or 15 bucks, I wouldn't have bothered with the review. But this book is definitely not worthy of a 50 dollar price tag. I will be returning it. Sorry Michael. :-(
S**S
Use it to understand it.
Is easy to understand on download pycharm and set up. Must keep using it with samples to understand its function. Overall; good to know how it works.
G**G
Illustrations are not readable
Illustrations in the book are not readable. Screenshots with black background and faded gray font are absolutely useless.
E**M
Good content but…
Great content but most of screen shots in the paperback edition are very hard to distinguish anything, maybe better if you have Pycharm open while reading the book
Q**K
Hire a copy editor
This book is so poorly edited, it is nearly impossible to read. One would expect an author skilled at following the rules of computer diction and syntax could apply those same talents to composing in human language. Even a once-through trying to read this catastrophe of a book out loud would have exposed many of the errors. If the authors, consultants both, expect their clients to hire them for their expertise, why were they unwilling to part with a few shekels to hire a copy editor? Arrogance? Further, the book could be a third shorter had the authors dispensed with the repetitive, platitudinous praises for pycharm at the beginning of every section. Perhaps this sycophantic drivel was the price to gain the JetBrains executive's fawning Foreword. Absolutely dreadful.
J**J
Screen shots are difficult to see.
The text of the book is well written, but the included screen shots are difficult to see.
S**E
Disappointing
Long on Mac/Windows, short on Linux. Makes comprehension confusing trying to figure out the OS differences when first learning PyCharm. The video course that goes along with this book is way to fast and terse.
M**S
Muito bom
Muito bom. Superou expectativas
A**E
You WILL regret buying this.
With a price tag of around forty quid, you'll probably think you're buying one of those massive computer tomes that you could use as a door-stop. You're not. You're getting a small-format book of 200 pages (so you're paying 20p per page, and those pages are in fairly large font, with LOTS of white space, and even more generally useless 'dark grey on slightly-less dark grey illustrations). Oh, and unless you're using the commercial version of the program, about a third of the book won't apply to you anyway. Then there's the typos. By page 34 I was already seriously starting to wonder if ANYONE (including the authors) had bothered to proofread this book at all. When basic English sentences are totally garbled and left incomplete, you have to wonder to what extent you can actually trust lines of coding or web links. There's ONE web link you can certainly trust, though. As is the case with many computer books, there's an accompanying website of material. Want to use it? Oh, goody! Another $50, thanks, ker-ching! Frankly, it's a long, long time since I've felt quite so ripped-off after buying a computer book. Scratch that. I've NEVER felt so ripped off after buying a computer book. I find it hard to see how anyone could buy this and not feel they'd been ripped off. As you've probably gathered by now, I don't recommend this book at all!
S**3
Qualité médiocre des illustrations
Livre difficile à utiliser si vous utilisez la version community de Pycharm et les copies d'écran sont difficiles à déchiffrer. Sinon beaucoup d'astuces pratiques pour utiliser Pycharm
L**R
sadly, junk in all regards but one: it is a sucincet outline of features
Poorly written, poorly edited, and awful graphics. Written by programmers who don't know how to write or teach. But I think they do know how to code, so if you can find your way through this maze of outrageously overpriced trash, then you'll find a good outline and a brief text which will try, in its own inept way, to get you to buy their video course. Don't fall for it. On the other hand, the bar is low for educational materials. I suggest you check out codewithmosh.com for a much better Python course, but he uses Visual Studio, not PyCharm.
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