Instruction

Weiye Kuang
October 1, 2019

How to use PyCharm

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) tool kit for developing
programs in Python. It is very useful to the python beginners, since it has many
helpful features, like code completion, error highlighting, quick fixes and so on. This
instruction is for the python beginners and the users of PyCharm. In this instruction, I
will show how to use PyCharm to write and run a python program.

Device
Computer (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Steps
1. Download and install PyCharm. There are 3 versions of PyCharm, Windows,
macOS, and Linux. Download the proper one. Just download the Community one,
which is free.

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2. Download and install Python. PyCharm doesn’t contain any python interpreter.
You need to download it by yourself. Google python and click on ‘Download Python’
and then download python 3.7.4
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3. Create your project. Open PyCharm and click on ‘Create New Project’.

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4. Enter your project name, and then click on ‘Create’. The python interpreter you
installed will be found by PyCharm automatically.

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5. Create your python file. Right click on the project name--> new --> python file.
Then enter your file name.
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6. Write your program.

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7. Run your code. Right click on your python file and then choose ‘Run (your file
name)’.

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8. Check the output. You can see the output of your program in the run console.
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Now you know how to use PyCharm to write and run python program. You can start
your own program now.

Cited Work
Figure 3: https://codepumpkin.com/hello-world-in-pycharm/