Quan Nguyen - Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

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Quan Nguyen is a data scientist and Python enthusiast. He has a dual degree in mathematics and computer science, with a minor in philosophy, from DePauw University. Quan is interested in scientific computing and machine learning and enjoys incorporating technology automation into everyday tasks through programming.

Quan's passion for Python has led him to be heavily involved in the Python community. He started as a primary contributor to the book Python for Scientists and Engineers and various open source projects on GitHub. Quan is also a writer for the Python Software Foundation and a content contributor for DataScience.com. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Luis Felipe Vera was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, where he received a degree in computer science from the Open National University in 2000. Subsequently, Luis Felipe completed a telecommunications specialization at Clodosbaldo Russian University and France Telecom in 2004 in Bordeaux, France.

Luis Felipe is the cousin of Blanca Vera Azaf . He is the creator of projects and applications with real-time capabilities in Django. Luis Felipe lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife, Susy, and their daughter and son, Gaby and Andres.

Dr. Gowrishankar S. is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He earned his Ph.D. in engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2010, and an MTech in software engineering and a BE in computer science and engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, India, in 2005 and 2003, respectively. His current research interests are mainly focused on data science, including its technical aspects as well as its applications and implications. Specifically, he is interested in the application of machine learning, data mining, and big data analytics in healthcare. His Twitter handle is @g_s_nath.

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This book is divided into five long sections, each covering a fundamental idea about the usage of PyCharm. In the first section, a basic introduction to PyCharm is presented. The section addresses a number of notable differences between PyCharm and other common Python editors or IDEs, comparisons between the Professional and the Community versions of PyCharm, and a step-by-step guide on how to download, register, and set up your very own PyCharm distribution on a system.

Before we turn our attention to the specifics of the PyCharm software itself, let's first consider the organization of the book. Being a comprehensive guide to a hands-on, flexible understanding of how to use PyCharm in various situations, this book contains a wide range of topics regarding PyCharm. While working on a project, most of the time, you might only be interested in a specific topic or a particular functionality of PyCharm; you are most likely not going to go through the complete book to teach yourself all the features of PyCharm (however, you are more than welcome to do so!).