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Introduction

This guide is to assist BCIT students enrolled in the Computer Systems Technology (CST) Diploma at the Downtown campus (DTC) with setting up the JetBrains IDE, PyCharm, in preparation for the COMP 1510 course "Programming Methods".

Intended Users

The intended users of this guide are people who are planning to take the COMP 1510 course "Programming Methods" at BCIT in the Downtown Campus, or are enrolled and have not begun classes.

Prerequisites

  • A laptop that you plan to use for the course running macOS or Windows 11 that you have administrator permissions on.
  • Familiarity with using computers and basic computing terms.
  • A GitHub account.
  • A JetBrains education account.
  • Connection to the internet to search and install software.
  • This guide assumes the user will be following from a new installation of PyCharm. Users who have changed various settings since installation are welcome to follow this guide, but may run into conflict with previously made changes.

Project layout

mkdocs.yml    # The configuration file.
docs/
    index.md  # The documentation homepage.
    ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.

Notes, Warnings, and Admonitions