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The JetBrains for Education Blog

Products and opportunities to learn and teach programming

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Version 2021.2.1 of the EduTools plugin is out now! This update is packed with new features and improvements, including the ability to restart courses, auto-substitution of input for Run/Debug in Codeforces tasks for C++, updated default task description templates, and various bug fixes. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN For learners Restart courses from the Course Selection view It’s good practice to rep

Today we are releasing EduTools 2021.2, the bug-fix update for EduTools 2021.1. Thanks to the feedback our community provided to us, we promptly discovered that the 2021.1 version was affected by a critical issue with corrupted Java run configurations: EDU-4052. We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience this issue has caused. Our development team worked hard to solve the problem as quickly as

Version 2021.1 of the EduTools plugin is now available! It introduces the auto-substitution of input for Run/Debug in Codeforces tasks for Kotlin, Java, Scala, and Python; improvements for the Task Description; a fix for C++ Catch support; and various bug fixes for the Course Selection view. As you may have noticed, we’ve also revised the plugin version numbering in this release. It now matches th

2020 is over, and in this post we’d like to take a look at what JetBrains Academy accomplished last year. The number of learners choosing our platform continues to grow, as does JetBrains Academy itself. The beginning of 2020 saw a momentous occasion in the history of JetBrains Academy. We added the Python track to the already existing Java and Kotlin tracks. Today, more than 116,000 users are le

Back in June, we took a big step forward with JetBrains Academy and introduced a monthly subscription model. We are grateful to each and every member of our learning community for all your support and the feedback we’ve received! It has encouraged us to take another big step and introduce an annual subscription to JetBrains Academy! Now our users can take advantage of learning on the platform with

With this release we’ve been focused on the overall quality of the EduTools plugin and fixed many bugs. Read on to learn more! INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN Here are the most notable fixes available in v4.4: The formatting issue with task descriptions has been fixed (EDU-3806). You can now participate in Codeforces contests using a different programming language for each (EDU-3713). The proxy set

News

After working on content for JetBrains Academy throughout October and November, we’re finally ready to share new projects and educational topics with you! We hope you’ll enjoy the updates as much as we enjoyed creating them. Keep in mind that the beta projects are in the early stages of testing. We appreciate your feedback, because it helps us improve and release these projects publicly sooner. M

Today we want to wish a very happy birthday to our Educational IDEs, and to thank you for being an important part of our learning community and believing that education has no limits! We want to start the celebration by taking a look back on the journey we’ve made together. Python has been and still is the most popular language used to learn and teach programming for beginners, and our JetBrains

JetBrains Academy

Edu IDEs

Learning Courses

Version 4.3 of the EduTools plugin is now out! It introduces a new My Courses tab, along with improved organization of courses in the Course Selection view, a UI update for the Check Panel view, and several improvements for JetBrains Academy users. Read on to learn more! INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN Keep track of your progress with the new My Courses tab With the new My Courses tab in the Course Selec

Tools for Teaching

Interviews

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 lear

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 bec