JetBrains 2015 Hackathon took place July 9-11 at our offices in St. Petersburg and Munich, with additional team members joining remotely. The basic idea was to have some fun and build something viable from scratch in a short time frame. Over the designated 48 hours of the Hackathon, 57 participants worked feverishly on 21 projects; eating, talking and dreaming code. Let’s get right to the meat and potatoes and tell you about this year's projects. (more…)

Learning to Code with Python When should one start learning coding? Some think it’s best to start when you are young but no matter how old you are, it’s never too late to learn new things. Many developers, if you ask them, would agree that the best programming language to begin with is Python. Yes, it’s an easy to learn yet powerful language with a great community and ecosystem around it. Who Should use PyCharm Educational Edition What should developer tools for learning be like? Should you learn in something very simple or maybe from the very beginning you should start with something more

The recording of our February 6th webinar, Python for the C# Developer, is now available on JetBrains YouTube Channel. Michael Kennedy's presentation and the code used in the recording can be found here on GitHub. Learn about some of the loved things from C# that can accomplished in Python and how it is done: Lambda expressions, foreach loops, rich class library, iterators and more. If you use C# and .NET, you may be surprised to find out how many of the features that you love also exist in Python (often first). Python is a wonderful language. It is a clean, high-level language which value

Join us Thursday, February 6th, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT (check other time zones) for our free webinar, Python for the C# Developer with Michael Kennedy. If you use C# and .NET, you may be surprised to find out how many of the features that you love also exist in Python (often first). Python is a wonderful language. It is a clean, high-level language which values readability over many trade-offs. You can build web applications serving billions of monthly page views. You can build cross-platform GUI applications such as DropBox. You can access amazingly powerful database servers such as MongoDB and

On Thursday, December 12th, we held our webinar, PyCharm Web Magic: Building a Pinterest Clone in 60 Minutes with John Lindquist. While the live webinar went without a hitch, we encountered technical problems with the recording that prevents us from publishing the video. We apologize for any inconvenience and would like to strongly recommend that you attend the live events whenever possible. John has graciously recorded and published to JetBrains YouTube Channel a condensed screencast version of the webinar to accommodate the many requests that we have received. Watch him build a Pinterest C

Join us Thursday, December 12th, 17:00 – 18:00 GMT (9:00 – 10:00 PST) for our free live webinar, PyCharm Web Magic: Building a Pinterest Clone in 60 Minutes. PyCharm Professional Edition provides much more than just your standard Python development tools. John Lindquist will demonstrate the workflow and tools to make using databases, Flask, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript a breeze by building and deploying a Pinterest clone. Come learn many of the tips and tricks PyCharm provides to turbocharge your daily tasks. Space is limited, so please register now. There will be an opportunity to ask question

The recording of our October 17th webinar with Paul Everitt and Dmitry Filippov, Production Python 3 Web Development with Pyramid and PyCharm, is now available on JetBrains YouTube Channel and JetBrains.TV. This webinar shows that, with PyCharm as a productive development environment and Pyramid’s 2-year support for Python 3, you can now treat Python 3 as “ready to go” for web development. The code samples used in this webinar can be found here. About this webinar Winner of the prestigious “Webinar Title with The Most P’s Award”, this webinar covers Python 3 web development with PyCharm a

Join us Thursday, October 17th, 14:00 - 15:00 GMT (10:00 - 11:00 EDT) for our free webinar, Production Python 3 Web Development with Pyramid and PyCharm featuring Paul Everitt. Winner of the prestigious "Webinar Title with The Most P's Award", this session will cover Python 3 web development with PyCharm and the Pyramid web framework. The new PyCharm 3.0 release includes strong support for Pyramid. This webinar will show that, with PyCharm as a productive development environment and Pyramid's 2-year support for Python 3, you can now treat Python 3 as "ready to go" for web development. Pyram

This is an important cross-post from JetBrains PyCharm Blog. We are happy and proud to let you know that we've just released PyCharm 3.0, the newest version of our Python IDE. It comes with an outstanding lineup of new features and enhancements, including: SQLAlchemy support Pyramid & Web2Py web frameworks support Full-featured embedded local terminal Configurable language injections Improvements in Python and Django code intelligence Much better code insight for PyQt and PyGTK and a lot more… But the most noteworthy announcement for version 3.0 is: PyCharm now comes

If you have ever had the pleasure to meet a Brazilian developer or attend JavaOne in San Francisco, you will know that they are a passionate group that deeply care about developer tools and demand the best. As strong supporters of free and open source software, JetBrains tools such as IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition have been growing more and more popular in Brazil for some time. While our open source tools continue to gain in popularity locally, interest for our commercial software has experienced an even greater increase. In return, JetBrains is sponsoring a series of local events and off

Feel a part of the Global Python community and meet the JetBrains PyCharm Team at PyCon 2013, March 13-21, in Santa Clara, California. Being the largest annual gathering for the Python community using and developing the open-source Python programming language, it has a very diverse schedule. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a beginner or professional Python developer, as there’s a variety of sessions dedicated to providing an enjoyable experience to everyone. Join the event with more than 2,200 visitors to attend multiple sessions in two conference venues. All Tutorial and Conference events