Education

Integration with Stepik for Educators In 2016 we partnered with Stepik, a learning management and MOOC platform, to announce the Adaptive Python course. But if you want to create your own Python course with the help of PyCharm Edu, integration with Stepik may help you easily keep up your learning materials and share them with your students. Let's take a simple example based on the Creating a Course with Subtasks tutorial and look at the integration features in more detail. (more…)

PyCharm Educational Edition follows its professional sibling and also starts the Early Access Program (EAP) for PyCharm Edu 4, available for free download now! What is EAP and why should you join? We at JetBrains believe that making tools for developers takes listening carefully to everyone who uses our products, from students to teachers, from beginners to experienced developers. This is why we run our Early Access Programs – so you can evaluate new features, discuss the product and influence development from early stages onwards. Your feedback is more than welcome here in the comments or r

Our April 25th webinar on Visual Debugging went quite well: just over 1 hour, a lot of fun, and covered nearly all of the topics. The recording is now available on YouTube. Additionally, the code and slides used are available in a GitHub repository. “Visually Debugging” is a theme that we plan to touch on repeatedly during 2017. For example, we have tutorial proposals for DjangoCon and EuroPython that expand on the topics in this webinar, conducted in a hands-on, 3-hour format. About Visual Debugging PyCharm puts a visual face on debugging and we’d like to help more developers take th

Git is a fantastic and wildly popular version control system. Once you get beyond the basics, though, it can be a bit cryptic for civilians. Fortunately, this is an area where JetBrains IDEs can help, by putting a visual face on the underlying git commands. Our colleagues in PhpStorm and IntelliJ recently tried a fun new approach at showing this. Since Git/GitHub support is largely shared across all of our IDEs, why not do a series of task-oriented, bite-sized screencasts featuring two IDEs tackling a certain Git workflow? And since version control, like so many of our features, is shared a

In early January I was invited by PyLadies Pune to do a hangout. We spent an hour writing a 2d game in Python, covering a number of Python development skills along the way. I’d love to repeat this, so if you have a meetup or user group and are interested, let me know. The recording is below...let’s talk a bit about the backstory. Smart, Nice, Energetic: Sounds Like Python PyCharm visited PyCon India in September 2016 and, at our booth, tutorials, and talks, we were fortunate to meet many Python developers and hear about the community in India. So very much going on, and it was nice to se

Have you already started working on your new 2017 year resolutions? Maybe some of them have to do with learning or teaching more Python? If so, try PyCharm Edu 3.5, the next update for our Educational Edition. This release brings advanced course creation options for educators and more courses for students. Subtask Management for Educators When teaching your students to program, you often want to give them an opportunity to work with the same code fragment, gradually making tasks more complicated and sophisticated. With PyCharm Edu 3.5 it is now possible to add steps, or subtasks, for any tas

The new version of Python, version 3.6, is planned to be released on Friday December 16th. Let’s take a quick look at the new features that are included in this release, and play around with it a little. Python 3.6 has many new cool features, like format strings, a secrets module, file system protocol, and more. If you want to read more about all features, check out python.org. To show some of what can be done in the new language, let’s create a simple application in modern Python, and then see how we can upgrade it with Python 3.6 features. Quick disclaimer: this post is not a full l

Today we bring you PyCharm Edu 3.0.1, an updated version of our free, easy and professional tool for learning programming with Python. Download PyCharm Edu 3.0.1 for your platform today! PyCharm Edu 3.0.1 is a small bug-update release that includes some minor fixes for recently added functionality and latest platform improvements as well as a fix for a problem with login to Stepik. Let’s take a look at what was new in PyCharm Edu 3: Brand-new experimental adaptive Python course Hyperlinks in task descriptions Course preview within the course creation mode Running and debuggi

In January we recorded a series of screencasts that introduced the major features of PyCharm -- an overview, installation, editing, running, debugging, etc. In April we did our first “in-depth” screencast, focusing on testing. We’re happy to announce the next in-depth screencasts, and note the plural: this is a 3-part series on using version control systems (VCS) in PyCharm. The JetBrains IDEs, including PyCharm, have worked very hard over the years to put a productive, easy UI atop version control. These videos spend more time showing the features that are available. In the first video

Today we bring you PyCharm Edu 3, the third major release of our free, easy and professional tool for learning programming with Python. This release introduces a new, revolutionary approach to learning Python more easily and effectively in a smart way, and focuses on course creation functionality to build your own programming courses. Download PyCharm Edu 3 for your platform today! What’s New in PyCharm Edu 3? Brand-new experimental adaptive Python course Enhanced task description panel Hyperlinks in task descriptions Course preview within the course creation mode Running

Today we’re announcing that PyCharm Edu 3 is coming this August, right before the new school year. Since the previous release we’ve tremendously improved PyCharm Edu for teachers and course authors, implemented new useful functionality, made a lot of small neat improvements, and fixed various problems. The best things about PyCharm Edu will stay unchanged – it’s still going to be completely free and open source software, specifically designed to help beginners with little or no previous coding experience to learn programming quickly and efficiently, while using a modern professional too

Earlier this year we rolled out a Getting Started Series of screencast videos on the basics of using PyCharm: setup, the UI, running Python code, debugging, etc. We knew at the time that some topics would need more treatment than a quick screencast, so we planned a follow-on series of “in-depth” screencasts, each on a single topic. Here’s the first: In-Depth: Testing covers more topics than we went over in the Getting Started: Testing screencast. Which makes sense, as PyCharm itself has such a wealth of support in each of its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBbR97Vsv8 Here