JetBrains Academy: New Projects and Topics in September

Anastasia Khramushina

It’s already October, and we are excited to share all the new topics and projects that were released in September. In total, we created 5 new projects, including our new Go project, and added more than 50 new topics. Thanks to your feedback, we were able to release 2 projects from Beta: Flashcards (Python) and Connect Four (Kotlin).

What’s new in Java

Swing project: Graph-Algorithms Visualizer (Alpha)
Topics: Modules, Introduction to logging in Java, Switch expression, Async methods (Spring Boot)

What’s new in Python

Projects: Honest Calculator (Beta), Create Glowing Bacteria (Beta)
Topics: 

• Django: Django MVC, Starting a project
• Additional instruments: find() under the hood, sort() under the hood, ast module
• Control flow > Functions: Function annotations, Python unpacking operators (* and **)
• Python libraries: SQL Alchemy updating and deleting data
• Working with data: The string module, The Shutil module
• Code quality: Logging

What’s new in Kotlin

Topics: 

• Additional instruments: Thread as object, Debugging simple constructs, Custom threads, Advanced debugger features
• Control flow: Function references
• OOP: Generics and Any, Inheritance and constructors, Type aliases
• Types and data structures: MutableMap

What’s new in Android

Topics: Activity, Android Studio Tool Windows

What’s new in Frontend

Project: Hyperskill Cafe (Alpha)
Topics: Execution context, Introduction to JSX

What’s new in Go

Project: Simple Chatty Bot (Beta)
Topics: Pointers, Slices, Working with slices, Modules, Packages, Strings

What’s new in Data Science

Topics: Ensemble methods, Searching within a pandas DataFrame, Multiple linear regression, Logistic regression, Logistic regression in sklearn, Regularized regression, Regularized regression in sklearn

What’s new in Math

Topics: Vectors, matrices, and tensors, Finding probabilities

What’s new in Fundamentals

Topics: 

• Algorithms and structures: Comparing the shortest path algorithms, Searching problem
• Databases and SQL: Grant, Revoke
• Dev tools: Introduction to docker, installation, Foreground and background jobs, Loops and sequences, Run the “hello-world” docker container, Getting information about processes
• Essentials: Color models and color spaces, Introduction to software architecture, Virtualization, Class Diagrams, Paradigms
• UI/UX: Feedback, Input fields and field labels, Information architecture

Keep in mind that the alpha and beta projects are in the early stages of testing. We appreciate your feedback on such projects – it helps us improve and publicly release them sooner. In order to see beta projects at the platform, you need to have the beta testing feature enabled in your profile settings. Alpha projects are currently available only via a direct link.

Should you have any questions or would like to share feedback, feel free to leave a comment below, contact us at academy@jetbrains.com, or share your post on Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit.

Keep learning,
Your JetBrains Academy team

Subscribe to JetBrains Academy updates

Subscribe form

By submitting this form, I agree to the JetBrains Privacy Policy Notification icon

By submitting this form, I agree that JetBrains s.r.o. ("JetBrains") may use my name, email address, and location data to send me newsletters, including commercial communications, and to process my personal data for this purpose. I agree that JetBrains may process said data using third-party services for this purpose in accordance with the JetBrains Privacy Policy. I understand that I can revoke this consent at any time in my profile. In addition, an unsubscribe link is included in each email.

Submit

Thanks, we've got you!