Selecting an IDE

The choice of IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is mostly a matter of personal preferences. The most common choices are PyCharm, Sublime Text, or Atom. PyCharm is a very complete development environment while Sublime Text is a lightweight text editor which allows us to install additional plugins. Its main advantage is the fact that the user can choose the tools that he needs for his development. Atom is the newest software of all three, similar to Sublime Text. It was developed by GitHub and integrates by default the git version control system. In the book, we will use Sublime Text as the simplest and the easiest solution to start data analysis and development.