Pycharm comes in two editions, Professional and Community. One can either download the community edition which is absolutely free or can get a student license which provides a free trial of the professional edition for an year. We will be learning how to install the community edition.
- Use this link to download the community edition for windows.
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Save the pycharm-community-2017.1.2.exe file.
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Go to the folder that contains this downloaded file. Double click on the executable file. A setup window will appear. Click Next
- Let the destination folder remain the default one. Click on Next.
- Check the Create Desktop shortcut to have a shortcut available for fast access on the Desktop. Choose 32-bit or 64-bit depending upon your system. Click Next.
- It may also ask to choose a folder name. you can give it any name or just let it stay as default, that is, JetBrains. Click on Install.
- Let the extraction take place. At the end of it, Pycharm will be installed in the system.
- Click on Finish and you can check Run Pycharm if you want to immediately run it.
- When you will run Pycharm for the first time, You will see a pop-up to import settings. Choose No import settings and move ahead.
- There will appear a agreement, accept it.
- A pop up to set initial configuration will appear. Save it with the default settings and now you can start using PyCharm.
