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JetBrains Academy – April Digest

Margarita Aleeva

Hey!

April brought many good reasons to open your IDE.

Learn about a new DeepLearning.AI collab on spec-driven development, a beginner-friendly full-stack chat app course, a Kotlin certificate you can add to your LinkedIn profile, and fresh research on which AI coding tools developers actually use at work.

Learning highlights

Build Your First 3D Game With AI

Take our short course and build a 3D browser game in WebStorm using an AI coding agent. Join Tode the Frog as he battles waves of enemies to defend his home! You can finish it with Coursera’s seven-day free trial. Leave a review, send the screenshot to education@jetbrains.com, and get one free month of JetBrains AI Pro (10 AI Credits).

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Spec-Driven Development With Coding Agents

Move beyond vibe coding! This short course by DeepLearning.AI, created in partnership with JetBrains, shows how to use clear specs, iterative workflows, and agent skills to build software with more control.

Enroll for free

Kotlin Professional Certificate

This new certification path by JetBrains and LinkedIn Learning takes you from Kotlin essentials to multiplatform development with Ktor and Compose. Finish all four courses, pass the final exam, and add the certificate straight to your LinkedIn profile.

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100-Day Python Challenge in Your IDE

Angela Yu’s bestselling Python bootcamp is now available as an in-IDE course on JetBrains Academy. One hundred days, one hundred projects, including web scraping, APIs, GUIs, data science, and more. It’s free, self-paced, and designed to fit around your life.

Take the course

Full-Stack JavaScript: Build a Real-Time Chat App

Build a real-time chat app from scratch and see how modern web apps come together. You’ll start with a backend in Node.js and Express, then add a React frontend, and finish with a project that’s strong enough for your portfolio.

Start building