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 C

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

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 EuroPyth

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 acros

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 PyC

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

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

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

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,

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’

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

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