Effective PyCharm: Learn the PyCharm IDE with a Hands-on Approach (Treading on Python)

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.

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

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. :-(

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.

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.

Illustrations in the book are not readable. Screenshots with black background and faded gray font are absolutely useless.

The text of the book is well written, but the included screen shots are difficult to see.

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.

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.

Muito bom. Superou expectativas

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

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!