“If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.”
Confucius, The Analects
Today, If you want to learn the programming language “Python”, maybe you need a useful editor.
PyCharm is the best IDE of Python, I think. I will recommend it to every one, whether beginner or master.
First, I will introduce about “what is an IDE”. If you know, pass it is a good idea.
What is an IDE
IDE is a tool for us if we want to program, its full name is “Integrated Development Environment”.
Of course, the code we write just only need compiler (or interpreter) and it will work. So we can write a program in notepad++ or Vim and call compiler to compile our program.
But IDE can do it better.
The advantage of an IDE is that it integrates the “tool menu”, “GUI”, “Editor”, “Manager System”, “Debug”, “Execute” …… many tools. Use IDE can increase our productivity.
PyCharm is an IDE of Python.
Installation
Before we installing PyCharm, make sure you installed Python in your computer. If not, you can install Python first, maybe you can refer here: Python Tutorial (1) —— Download, and print “Hello World”
First, we come to the PyCharm official website: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
You will see the following screen.
Click Download button to download.
Select your os: Windows, MacOS, or Linux.
Community is a free version, we can try it if we use PyCharm in the first time.
If done, double click the file we downloaded.
Click Next >
Click Next >。
Next >
Install.
Finish.
If you never used PyCharm, choose “Do not import settings”.
Choose the style you want. I always chose the dark theme because it is relatively relax when I writing programs late at night.
Congratulations! after seeing the above screen, you can already build you own project. By the way, all Python packages in the project are installed in the virtual environment, so there will be no any conflicts.
Maybe later I will write an article introducing the features of PyCharm. See you next time!