Every professional developer was once a learner. We live in a fascinating world full of new challenges and opportunities, which means every professional developer can become a learner once again, or share what they have learned as an educator. No matter what role suits you best, IntelliJ IDEA is here for you. Please welcome IntelliJ IDEA Edu – a brand new flavor of the IDE joining our Community and Ultimate editions. It is now available for preview in our IntelliJ IDEA Edu 2019.3 EAP (Early Access Program). IntelliJ IDEA Edu supports Java, Kotlin, and Scala. As a learner, you can pra

The family of education resources for IntelliJ IDEA welcomes a new member! Now, in addition to “What’s new” videos, documentation, blog posts and screencasts, the IDE Features Trainer plugin is available to help you learn the shortcuts for the most used IDE actions. The current version includes 5 modules: Editor Basics, Completion, Refactoring, Code Assistance and Navigation, each consisting of several lessons. Let’s take a look at how this works. All plugin info and controls (like tasks and learning progress) are located in the Learn tool window, located near the 1: Project stripe button.

It's been almost two weeks since we first launched our free Student License program. To put it mildly, these have been very interesting and busy days. Here’s a quick recap: On September 23rd, we announced our Student License program initially supporting students and teachers with International Student Identity Cards (ISIC) and .edu email addresses for verification. The response was overwhelmingly positive but it also included a wave of feedback from “non .edu” students who could not easily apply. On September 24th, just one day later, we were able to quickly integrate a great SWOT libra

Hello everyone, If you’re on social media, you may have noticed that we have our ears to the ground, always listening and looking for new ideas. Who could have guessed that this tweet would become a reality one week later! https://twitter.com/Fane/status/511934526449524736 Everything starts with learning. And what we learn when we’re young defines what we become and quite often what we are able to achieve in our lives. So, how do we make sure today’s students learn from the best? We at JetBrains believe we can do something about this. JetBrains has a proud tradition of supportin

Background For a number of years now JetBrains has sponsored and promoted a wide range of educational projects and initiatives. At the early stages, when the company was still a start-up, a handful of colleagues including some of the JetBrains founders taught Computer Science and IT courses at the university level in St. Petersburg, Russia, sharing their skills and knowledge with students eager to learn. As time would show, this went a long way toward building and expanding the local community of professional software developers and IT specialists. FYI: JetBrains is headquartered in Pragu