Are you just starting your journey to become a Pythoneer or Pythonista? If yes, then your first step should be choosing the best IDE for you. There is a number of python IDEs available on the internet, but I would recommend you to kick start your Python journey by installing PyCharm community edition. Why? Because PyCharm community edition comes with a lot of exciting features such as version control, visual debugging, syntax highlighting and many more. In this article, I will guide you to install PyCharm on your computer without any errors.
Follow the steps given below to install and set up PyCharm IDE for Python:
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<li>Download <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/">Python</a> by clicking here. You can install any version of Python of your choice. But, I would recommend you to download the latest version of Python., i.e., Python 3.9.1 at the time of writing this article.</li>
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<li>Install the .exe file. Make sure you check &ldquo;Add Python 3.9 to path&rdquo; otherwise you would need to call it from the command line like this:</li>
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C:/Python3.9/Python some_python_script.py
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Whereas you can access it by just typing &ldquo;Python&rdquo; if you add Python to the path.
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<li>Verify if the Python is installed correctly or not by typing python &ndash;version in the Windows PowerShell.</li>
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If the Python version is displayed, then it is installed on your computer.
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Otherwise, you will see an error message as shown in the below animation :
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<li>The next step is to download the Community version of PyCharm IDE by <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=windows">clicking here</a>. The community version is free to use. You can download the Professional edition if you want(it has additional support for HTML, JS and SQL). If you are a beginner, then I would recommend you to use the community edition.</li>
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<li>Install the PyCharm as shown in the below animation :</li>
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PyCharm requires you to reboot your computer after installation. You can reboot as soon as the installation completes by clicking &ldquo;Reboot Now&rdquo; or you can skip and reboot your computer later by clicking on &ldquo;I want to manually reboot later.&rdquo;
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<li>After rebooting your computer, open the PyCharm IDE and click on &ldquo; Create New Project.&rdquo;</li>
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<li>Select the location and name of the project.</li>
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<li>Click on Existing Interpreter &gt; System Interpreter &gt; Python39.</li>
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With this, you are all set to run your python programs in PyCharm. Let&rsquo;s create a Hello World program to make sure that everything is working correctly. Follow to below steps to create a new python file in PyCharm :
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<li>Double click on Demo(I created a project named Demo in step 8)</li>
<li>Click on New&agrave;Python File.</li>
<li>Enter the name of the file and hit enter.</li>
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Let&rsquo;s run the Hello.py file we just created.
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In the above animation, you can clearly see that our Hello World program is running perfectly. So that&rsquo;s how you can easily set up PyCharm to run your Python programs.

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