Integrated Development Environment

In this lecture, we will discuss the usefulness of an Integrated Development Environment in our software engineering process.

Roadmap

Basics
Tutorial
- PyCharm

Definition: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or interactive development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.

Examples

Tools

PyCharm

PyCharm is very well documented and a lot of tutorials are available online.

Among other features, PyCharm provides

Integrated Unit Tester
Graphical Debugger
Integration with Version Control
Coding Assistance
- Code completion
- syntax and Error Highlighting

Installation is not as straightforward as we are used to, but we just need to run the install_pycharm script from our class repository in the terminal.

We will spend one lecture to walk through the Getting Started Guide and then explore other features as we implement a version of the generalized Roy model.

Formatting



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import urllib; from IPython.core.display import HTML
HTML(urllib.urlopen('http://bit.ly/1K5apRH').read())









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