From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Install PyCharm IDE and Robot plugin

Install PyCharm IDE and Robot plugin

Okay. So the final thing we need to install is what's called an IDE, Integrated Development Environment. As I've said before, there are multiple IDEs we could use for Robot Framework, but PyCharm is a great choice and even the creator of Robot Framework still uses it. So in this lesson, we're going to install the PyCharm IDE and a plugin that's going to give us Robot Framework specific syntax highlighting and some other cool goodies I'll talk about later. So what we're going to do is we're going to go to jetbrains.com and find some kind of tools PyCharm link. We'll download and install the community edition, which is free. We'll install PyCharm, we'll launch it and then we'll jump into settings and click on "Plugins" to install that Intellibot plugin, and then we'll restart PyCharm and it will be ready to use. So I've opened up Chrome, I'm at jetbrains.com I see the developer tools link here, IDEs, I find PyCharm and click on that. I use the download button. And notice I have this…

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