PyCharm is a professional-caliber Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that combines many of the tools that we have been individually using to date, including
- Virtual environment utilization
- Syntax highlighting
- PEP8 linting
- Docstring auto-generation
- Syntax checking
- Unit test running
- Debugging modes
- Interactive python console and terminal
- Version control (git)
- Profiling
For educational purposes, you can download the full-featured professional
version of the program using your .duke.edu email address: https://www.jetbrains.com/student/
You do not have to use PyCharm, as many other code editors provide similar functionality, but we will use it as an example platform.