After a 16-month Early Access Program (EAP), 16 EduTools plugin releases, and 70 weekly platform updates, we've moved JetBrains Academy out of EAP to a subscription model. Now we're celebrating with various trial options and a 50% discount plan.

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…)

Learning is always a challenge. We know this and we keep it in mind when developing our educational products. We believe that any challenge can be overcome if it is tackled step by step with support and feedback. That’s why all our educational products focus on learning with discrete topics and tasks, and instant feedback. The same is also true for us as product developers. We rely on a step-by-step strategy and we value our users’ feedback more than anything. In the previous post, we announced the next step for JetBrains Academy – the move from Early Access to a subscription model – and we a

Back in February 2019, we announced the Early Access Program (EAP) for JetBrains Academy – an educational platform with a focus on learning by doing. We launched the program with a curriculum for Java including 25 projects that students could build while learning and practicing new concepts. These EAP months have been very exciting! With more than 130,000 registered students, it has brought us an incredible amount of user feedback. Users have shared so many wonderful ideas with us. These ideas have led us to rethink and rework JetBrains Academy again and again, always striving to make it a be

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…)

Today’s fast-paced world pushes us to keep improving and to learn new things every day. And when we heed our inner drive to evolve and advance, we don’t just change ourselves – we change the world for the better, one step at a time. At JetBrains, we are passionate about continuous improvement, and we hold learning in the highest regard. We care deeply about those who never stop learning or who help others improve themselves. That is why we’re creating Educational Products to help you learn and teach programming in modern new ways. Educational Products for Students Educational Prod

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…)

Starting today, Python joins the good company of Java and Kotlin as a programming language that you can learn with JetBrains Academy. We’re glad to announce the Python Track is ready and is waiting for learners! Start the Python Track or read the Start Guide for more details. (more…)