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JetBrain products user, including PyCharm. What JetBrains needs to do is create a good series of instructional videos to show how they intend these products to

JetBrain products user, including PyCharm. What JetBrains needs to do is create a good series of instructional videos to show how they intend these products to be used. They are excellent and very powerful but you are left to peek and poke around to figure out how they intended you to use and configure them. The various videos available, last time I looked, are seriously outdated. For example, there are a bunch of different ways to work with PyCharm and Django. The other thing they need to do is improve their customer service. The couple of times I needed an answer not found on sites like SO it took something like 3 to 5 days to get an answer from them.

pauleveritt 10y ago
FWIW, around a year ago I did the getting started videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUZ1mwB-uImQE-gmkwzjNLjP https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUZ1mwB-uImQ... Can you let me know if this is the kind of thing that you're talking about?
- rebootthesystem 10y ago
  Yes! Looks very nice. I can now point people to an easy set of videos to understand how to use PyCharm to develop Python products. I will watch them all when I have some time. Do you cover Django integration at all? Subjects such as remote development (You sit at your windows machine while developing and running code on a Linux server elsewhere or on a local VM) and deployment under various scenarios would be useful (for example, best way to deal with deployment to separate application and database servers). In general terms, a bunch of IDE's can provide a project tree on the left and code completion. In the course of easy-to-follow tutorials it would be great to highlight and teach how to use benefits PyCharm offers that add value to the product. Without this guidance people are left to poke around and sometimes fail to get it. A few years ago I had a situation where I wanted a client to switch from SublimeText (an excellent product) to PyCharm. Probably a hundred seats or more. A lot of resistance to IDE's in general. Three hour videos from PyCon are deal-breakers, nobody but the most interested are going to watch them. And JetBrains didn't have anything I could use. It looks like things might be different now. Thanks!

pauleveritt 10y ago

FWIW, around a year ago I did the getting started videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUZ1mwB-uImQE-gmkwzjNLjP https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUZ1mwB-uImQ... Can you let me know if this is the kind of thing that you're talking about?

rebootthesystem 10y ago
Yes! Looks very nice. I can now point people to an easy set of videos to understand how to use PyCharm to develop Python products. I will watch them all when I have some time. Do you cover Django integration at all? Subjects such as remote development (You sit at your windows machine while developing and running code on a Linux server elsewhere or on a local VM) and deployment under various scenarios would be useful (for example, best way to deal with deployment to separate application and database servers). In general terms, a bunch of IDE's can provide a project tree on the left and code completion. In the course of easy-to-follow tutorials it would be great to highlight and teach how to use benefits PyCharm offers that add value to the product. Without this guidance people are left to poke around and sometimes fail to get it. A few years ago I had a situation where I wanted a client to switch from SublimeText (an excellent product) to PyCharm. Probably a hundred seats or more. A lot of resistance to IDE's in general. Three hour videos from PyCon are deal-breakers, nobody but the most interested are going to watch them. And JetBrains didn't have anything I could use. It looks like things might be different now. Thanks!