The latest EduTools plugin release is now ready for you to try! Inside you will find a pack of new features, including: New tabbed view for course selection. The task description now shows the last verification result. Submissions display for JetBrains Academy. For the full list of changes, improvements, and bug fixes, please see the release notes. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN (more…)

Programming is fun. It’s an exercise for your brain – a mental sport. When this sport is held over the internet with contestants challenging each other, it becomes Competitive Programming. JetBrains is proud to be a Global Tools Sponsor of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), one of the oldest and most prestigious competitive programming contests. We have lots of tools and materials to support the brilliant and creative minds of the ICPC community on their journey, and in this series we will introduce you to a number of them. We’ll begin the series with this post, which dis

This month brings a new EduTools plugin release! Please give a warm welcome to EduTools 3.7, and the 2020.1.1 versions of both IntelliJ IDEA Edu and PyCharm Edu with the latest EduTools plugin version bundled. Here’s a quick overview of what’s been implemented: A new UI for browsing course cards. Courses that require additional plugins are now displayed. Many improvements relating to JetBrains Academy. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN Let’s start exploring! A new UI for browsing course cards It’s never been easier to navigate through a list of courses and select the one you need. Now you hav

Hooray, EduTools plugin v3.6 and the 2020.1 versions of PyCharm Edu and IntelliJ IDEA Edu are now released! We’ve made a lot of performance improvements, bug fixes and added some new things to provide you with a truly enjoyable experience of learning and teaching to program. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN But, first things first: A new, easier-to-use UI for filtering courses This new UI helps you easily navigate between listed courses and choose the right course for you based on your preferred programming languages and the language of instruction: (more…)

The first ICPC North America Championship (ICPC NAC 2020) took place February 19–23, 2020. The top teams from the ICPC North America Regional Contests advanced to the ICPC NAC in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. JetBrains was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the event. We were also honored to receive an ICPC North America Outstanding Community Leadership Award for our three-year commitment to their North America Regional Contests, participation in the ICPC World Finals, and service as the official ICPC Global Programming Tools Sponsor.

Happy Wednesday! As you may know, we recently released a Python track at JetBrains Academy. We hope it becomes a useful learning resource for everyone who’s venturing into Python. We’re now running a two-week Twitter campaign where we’re posting a series of cool Python facts and giving away 1000 hypercoins to each of 10 lucky commenters on our tweets! Would you like to share in the fun? Add your own #PythonFacts in the comments to the facts shared by our Twitter account for a chance to win hypercoins, which you can use to get your project reviewed by expert dev mentors! In any case, fol

Please welcome EduTools v3.5! In this post, you’ll learn about several new features that are available in the latest plugin version: Support for code snippets and TeX in multiple-choice tasks. A new dialog for creating sections, lessons, and tasks. C++ support for Codeforces. For the full list of issues addressed in EduTools 3.5, please see the release notes. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN (more…)

Nearly a month ago, we introduced the EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA Edu 2019.3, and now we are happy to announce that IntelliJ IDEA Edu 2019.3 is released! IntelliJ IDEA Edu 2019.3 is a free and open-source and contains all the features of IntelliJ IDEA Community 2019.3, with special functionality for learners and educators provided by the latest EduTools plugin v3.2. (more…)

Please give a warm welcome to EduTools plugin v3.2! This update adds support for Catch, the C++ test framework, makes the Hyperskill integration more stable, and fixes lots of bugs. Read on for more details. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN For this update, we have focused on increasing the stability of the plugin and eliminating annoying bugs to make your educational experience smoother and more enjoyable. To find out more about the bugs we’ve fixed and the improvements we’ve added, please see our Release notes. Java, Kotlin, and Scala courses now support using Java 13, and the following features

We’ve just updated our plugin to v2.9 to help you learn and teach different programming languages with more ease! Benefit from the latest code insight improvements for YAML configs, configure placeholder dependencies on placeholder creation, enjoy fewer bugs, and use the 2019.2.1 IDE builds for PyCharm Edu and IntelliJ IDEA Edu. For Educators Improved support for YAML configs With EduTools plugin version 2.7, we completely reworked our solution for storing course configuration files: all the information about your course is conveniently stored in YAML format. Now, we’ve made some more imp

People get into programming in different ways. Some begin learning it in school, some go to university to study Computer Science, while others get started with online courses – like Zina Smirnova, now a member of the Educational Products development team at JetBrains. We talked with Zina to find out more about her professional path. Can you tell us about your background and how you decided to become a developer? It didn't happen overnight, but like all worthy things in life, it took a lot of time and effort. It all began when I was on maternity leave as a junior researcher at the Institute