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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. :-(

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.