Sebastian Aigner, a passionate education-focused developer advocate at JetBrains, talks about working with students as well as his path from university to JetBrains, and he offers inspiration for those who are ready for frustration. To help you study and improve your programming skills JetBrains offers: Free licenses to students and faculty members. Educational Products for interactive learning. Internship opportunities for students. What does it mean to be an education-focused developer advocate at JetBrains? I am part of the developer advocacy team, where my focus is on

It's been almost two weeks since we first launched our free Student License program. To put it mildly, these have been very interesting and busy days. Here’s a quick recap: On September 23rd, we announced our Student License program initially supporting students and teachers with International Student Identity Cards (ISIC) and .edu email addresses for verification. The response was overwhelmingly positive but it also included a wave of feedback from “non .edu” students who could not easily apply. On September 24th, just one day later, we were able to quickly integrate a great SWOT libra

Hello everyone, If you’re on social media, you may have noticed that we have our ears to the ground, always listening and looking for new ideas. Who could have guessed that this tweet would become a reality one week later! https://twitter.com/Fane/status/511934526449524736 Everything starts with learning. And what we learn when we’re young defines what we become and quite often what we are able to achieve in our lives. So, how do we make sure today’s students learn from the best? We at JetBrains believe we can do something about this. JetBrains has a proud tradition of supportin

Background For a number of years now JetBrains has sponsored and promoted a wide range of educational projects and initiatives. At the early stages, when the company was still a start-up, a handful of colleagues including some of the JetBrains founders taught Computer Science and IT courses at the university level in St. Petersburg, Russia, sharing their skills and knowledge with students eager to learn. As time would show, this went a long way toward building and expanding the local community of professional software developers and IT specialists. FYI: JetBrains is headquartered in Pragu