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 learning Python with us! The rest of the year was as exciting as the beginning. In June, we took a big step forward and transitioned from 16 months of the Early Access Program to a monthly subscription

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 an annual subscription for $249.00, which is equivalent to the price of only 5 months of the standard $49.90/month subscription. Please note that prices in USD are for reference only. The actual pric

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 settings issue in Coursera courses has been resolved (EDU-3882). For the full list of issues addressed in the EduTools plugin, please see the release notes. You can update to the latest version of the

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. Moreover, 110+ fully-tested projects have already been publicly released and are ready for you to dive in! Java Developer New projects: Code Sharing Platform, Guess the Animal (Beta). Updated project:

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 Selection view, you can keep track of what you’re working on and what needs to be accomplished next. You can now see your progress right away and get back to working on your courses in one click. Organize

JetBrains is honored to be a sponsor of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), one of the oldest and most prestigious competitive programming contests. On November 6 we held JetBrains Knowledge Day 2020, marking the beginning of the ICPC season and academic year. Olga Telezhnaya, Software Developer at JetBrains Educational Products, shares insights about how our products can give a professional advantage in competitive programming. In particular, our integration with Codeforces, an online platform for programming competitions and contests, makes it possible to solve tasks rig

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 Developer Ecosystem Surveys proves this fact every year! At some point, it occurred to us that the power of PyCharm could be harnessed for educational purposes. That’s why, on October 30, 2014, we rel

EduTools plugin v4.2 is out and packed with improvements to the Course Selection view, support for 2020.3 versions of IntelliJ-based IDEs, and default placeholder texts customized for each supported programming language. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN (more…)

In today’s educational digest, we want to share some news and updates from JetBrains Academy, a hands-on platform for learning to program. We’ve added a lot of new projects We’re constantly adding new content to JetBrains Academy, and here is a list of new projects that we have added recently: Java Projects: Battleship (Medium) File Server (Hard) Online Chat (Hard) JSON Database (Challenging) Python Projects: Multilingual Online Translator (Hard) HyperJob Agency (Challenging) Kotlin Projects: Tic-Tac-Toe (Easy) Numerical System Converter (Hard) Seam Carving (Challenging) Web Project: Fl

EduTools plugin version 4.1 has improved integration with JetBrains Academy, new features for course creators, and some fresh UX changes.

EduTools plugin v4.0 is available! This new version has a nice round number, so we’re celebrating that with something special to help you revel in your achievements – read on for more details. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN (more…)

The 2020.2 release season for IntelliJ-based IDEs has already started, and we’re happy to announce that we’ve just released version 3.9 of the EduTools plugin, with support for the 2020.2 IDE releases. The 2020.2 versions of IntelliJ IDEA Edu and PyCharm Edu are also available. They combine the latest fixes for PyСharm and IntelliJ IDEA with the latest EduTools plugin updates from v3.9, such as support for Scala projects from JetBrains Academy, the possibility to embed YouTube videos in task descriptions, and more. INSTALL EDUTOOLS PLUGIN (more…)