JetBrains Academy: New Projects and Topics in October

Anastasia Khramushina

Looking back at October, Halloween was the highlight of the month. Our very first Math project was, as well! If you are brave enough to try your hand at haunted matrices, spooky probability theory and sometimes pretty scary linear algebra, this project will be just right for you. As with other JetBrains Academy projects, this one is divided into several stages of increasing complexity, so you don’t get overwhelmed (or scared).

Note that this project, as with other projects marked as Alpha or Beta, is still in the early stages of testing. In order to see beta projects on the platform, you need to have the Beta tester feature enabled in your profile settings.

There were lots of worthwhile content updates in October. Overall, we added 48 new topics and 5 projects to JetBrains Academy. Check them out!

What’s new in Java

Projects: Graph-Algorithms Visualizer (Beta), Inventory and POS System (Beta)
Topics: 

• Spring Boot: Custom user store, Spring actuator, Introduction to Spring Data
• Debugging: Advanced debugger features, Debugging simple constructs
• Design patterns: Memento

What’s new in Python

Project: Algorithms with IMDB (Beta)
Topics: 

• Django: Deploying an app
• Code style: The pprint module
• Algorithms under the hood: Index() and in under the hood

The Honest Calculator project is no longer in testing and was publicly released in October.

What’s new in Kotlin

Topics: 

• Concurrency and parallelism: Thread management, Exceptions in threads
• Additional libraries: Image libraries 
• Object-oriented programming: Generic functions

What’s new in Android

Topics: 

• Networking: Loading images with Picasso
• User Interface: Bitmap

What’s new in Frontend

Topics: 

• HTML: Iframe and frameset
• JavaScript: Introduction to array, Array sorting, Array creation, Array slicing, What is npx

What’s new in Go

Topics: 

• Control flow: Control statements
• Packages and modules: Main (compiling and running)
• Functions: Calling functions
• Working with data: Working with files in Go

What’s new in Scala

Topics: Defining new collections, Introduction to pattern matching, Loops, Modifying collections, Strings

What’s new in Data Science

Topics: Decision tree with sklearn

What’s new in Math

Project: Matrices and Population Genetics (Alpha)
Topics: Special discrete distributions, Diagonalization of matrices

What’s new in Fundamentals

Topics: 

• Databases and SQL: Full-text search engines, Views, Window functions, Comments in SQL, Columnar databases, Graph databases
• Dev tools: Walking through directories in the command line, Searching executables, Introduction to text processing: wc, cut, tr
• Essentials:  Cross-site scripting, Introduction to creational patterns, Factory methods and prototypes, Singleton

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