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Extra Features

Name: Extra Features
Uploaded: 2016-02-10T21:48:09Z
Duration: 165 s
Description: Before we wrap up PyCharm, let's see some of the other useful features, like the Python shell, tips, and more.

2:45 with Kenneth Love

Before we wrap up PyCharm, let's see some of the other useful features, like the Python shell, tips, and more.

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Get PyCharm from its website. Be sure to check out the educational versions, too.

The PyCharm documentation is super-handy.

You might want to check out this series of videos directly from JetBrains about even more PyCharm features.

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And lastly, I just wanna cover a couple of the other features in the PyCharm and 0:00

these are not necessarily the most handy or useful things but, 0:04

there are good things to know about and 0:08

that you'll use often on throughout your coding in PyCharm. 0:09

Down at the bottom, here you do have access to a terminal and a Python console, 0:13

both of which use What you're used to, nothing different there. 0:17

And then also if you go to Help, there is this tip of the day, 0:23

which you can turn on you can tell it to show these at start up. 0:27

It's kind of nice, 0:30

because it'll show you a tip at the beginning of your PyCharm session. 0:30

You can also hit next tip and previous tip. 0:35

to move back and forth through the tips. 0:37

And it's a great way to kind of learn a little bit about the editor. 0:40

Along that same line under Help, is the productivity guide. 0:44

So the productivity guide is more of, these are all those different features 0:47

which you can see right here under features. 0:52

And they tell you when you've used them, and how many times you've used them. 0:54

So if you're like, I want to do, I dont' know, recent changes. 0:57

Then you can click on this and it shows you how to find it, though it's 1:02

option shift c, and this will show you all of your recent changes on a project. 1:05

So you can be like, I want to be sure and use that, and then go ahead and use it. 1:10

It's really kind of handy. 1:14

Another one that's really good to explore, and I can't go too far in this, but 1:15

I'll do a little bit, is this refractor menu. 1:19

So if I go up here to Refactor, this lets me do a bunch of different stuff. 1:22

And one of the things that I find myself doing most of the time, is renaming it. 1:26

So I'm gonna hit Rename on say_hello, and 1:29

I'm gonna have it change this to print_howdy, cuz that's what we're doing. 1:33

And then I'm gonna say Refactor, and my term down here is like hey, 1:37

you've got it here, and I'm gonna say yeah, do that refactor. 1:42

And it changed both of those names. 1:47

So they now both say, print howdy instead of say hello. 1:49

So it makes it to where you can quickly rename a function in multiple places. 1:53

Or a variable. 1:58

Or a class. 1:59

Or anything else. 2:00

And it'll look across multiple file to change it in all the places 2:01

that you've used it. 2:04

So hopefully you can explore PyCharm and find some other really handy features. 2:05

If you find something that you really love, 2:09

be sure to share it in the community so other people can find it too. 2:11

For a lot of developers tools like PyCharm are just too heavy, they hold your hand 2:15

too much, or make coding feel like you're just pushing Lego pieces together. 2:19

In fact, that used to be my opinion too. 2:22

I used TextMate, Sublime Text, Vim and Emacs for years, because I liked 2:25

the feeling of using a lightweight, extensible editor to write my code. 2:29

But I noticed that over time my editor became more and 2:33

more bogged down with plugins and extensions to fill little niches. 2:36

I've been using PyCharm pretty heavily for the past half year or so, 2:40

and I wish I'd used it sooner. 2:42

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