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Download Back in 2014, we launched PyCharm Educational Edition with the vision to provide a free, open-source tool that would familiarize Python learners with real developer experience from the very start, and would offer teachers an easy way to share code practice exercises. Since then, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback from both students and teachers, which helped us improve PyCharm Edu a lot. Now, it’s time to go beyond Python. Please welcome Java and Kotlin learning and teaching support available inside IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio! What’s new in PyCharm Edu 2018.1 (more

PyCharm Edu versioning and release timetables are now aligned with our other JetBrains products, to help us focus on delivering more continuous value. So we’re switching to an aligned 2017.3 version from the previous version 4.0. Get PyCharm Edu 2017.3 Please note, that all the PyCharm Edu 2017.3 features are also available in PyCharm for Python courses, as well as IntelliJ IDEA for Java courses and IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio for Kotlin courses with the help of the EduTools plugin. PyCharm Edu 2017.3 new features Enhanced Stepik integration for learners Getting access to the Step

PyCharm Edu is getting ready for the next major release with Release Candidate build 173.4048. Get PyCharm Edu 2017.3 RC You are probably wondering why we’re switching to 2017.3 version from the previous version 4.0. By aligning the PyCharm Edu versioning and release timetables with PyCharm and other JetBrains products, we want to focus more on delivering continuous value. This is the third release this year, so it is natural to use the 2017.3 version for it. PyCharm Edu 2017.3 new features Learners will find: An enhanced Stepik integration with progress synchronization and public cour

PyCharm Edu 4 is out now! This update brings a better user experience to both learners and educators, making the product’s use as simple as possible, whether it is used for learning, or for teaching. First of all, we’ve changed the welcoming UI. Now you begin by choosing your role, Learner or Educator. Depending on your choice, you get access to the courses you can join as a learner and can practice with the help of simple and effective “fill in the missing code” exercises. Or, you can create your own code practice tasks and integrated tests as an educator. Learner With PyCharm Edu 4,

Writing games in Python is fun, so how about using it to teach computer programming? Paul Craven is both a professor and the creator of Arcade, a 2d game library for Python. He’s doing a webinar with us next week, so we talked to him about teaching Python, using Python 3 type hints, why another Python game library, and how IDEs fit into teaching. Thanks a bunch for doing the webinar next week. First, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I worked in the IT industry for 15 years before switching to teaching at Simpson College, a small 4-year college in Iowa. My main interest has been ge

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

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 holiday season is a great time to have fun, and it is also a great time to learn something new. That’s why today we’re opening the Early Access Program for PyCharm Edu 3.5 – the next update of our free tool for learning and teaching programming with Python. What is Early Access Program? We at JetBrains believe that making tools for developers involves listening carefully and responding to the opinion of everyone using our products – from students and their teachers to novice and experienced developers. The Early Access Program (EAP) allows you to try pre-release versions of our software

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

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