Pycharm Educational



Top Rated for PyCharm Educational. The Key Promoter X helps you to learn essential shortcuts while you are working. 2 147 930 downloads. Legacy Icon Pack for 2018.2+ Changes new monochrome icons to the good colorful old ones. You can choose between icons from IntelliJ 2016.2 and 2018.1. A: 'PyCharm Edu is based on the Community Edition and comprises all of its functionality. Additionally, it installs and detects Python during installation. It has a simpler UI (adjustable in settings) and adds a new 'Educational' project type.

Acting as both a IDE and a learning environment, it makes it possible for you to perform advanced coding and also to learn the very basics of Python programming

Python is one of the most popular programming languages out there that has an inherited inclination towards integration tasks, but it can also do a good job when used for web development thanks to a combination of easy extensibility, small iteration times, and fair integration with databases.

Designed with educational purposes in mind, PyCharm Educational is a streamlined and open source application that makes it easy for students or other users without programming experience to learn Python.

Provides a comprehensive learning environment and does a good job as an Python IDE

First thing you need to know about PyCharm Education is that, despite its learning inclinations, it is a full-featured Python development environment that can easily be used for advanced development thanks to its features like a Python console and a debugger, and other powerful tools such as code completion, code inspections, code refactoring, a version control feature, just to name a few.

Before you can take advantage of all what PyCharm Education has to offer, you will want to open the “Introduction to Python” project from the app’s Quick Start menu. The learning course is made out of multiple lessons that, in turn, contain one or more tasks.

By offering instant feedback, it enables you to view where you have gone wrong with the code

In the upper area of the panel, you can find the explanations for the specific exercise, and your progress will be displayed in lessons and tasks completed at the bottom of the window.

With the help of the mini-toolbar above the editing panel, you can open the previous or next tasks, or check if your solution for the Python challenge is correct.

If you find yourself a bit of stuck with finding a solution, you can always resort to the Hint helper by clicking the lightbulb-shaped button.

Bundles the functionality available in the Community Edition and brings a user-friendly Python learning environment to your Mac's desktop

Moreover, if you have mastered all of PyCharm Educational’s built-in courses and you feel up to a little challenge, you can turn to the Course Creation wizard to create your own courses with custom tasks, tests, and hints.

As a final note, PyCharm Educational is a user-friendly and efficient Python learning tool that can be used by both novice programmers and course authors (professors) for either learning, or for teaching purposes.

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PyCharm EducationalPycharm educational license was reviewed by Vladimir Ciobica
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  • 1 GB RAM minimum
New in PyCharm Educational 2018.2 Build 182.3684.126:
  • Scala is now supported:
  • We’re happy to welcome Scala as the next programming language supported by our Educational Products. Educators can now share their Scala knowledge in the form of coding tasks and custom verification tests, the same they do for Java, Kotlin, and Python.
  • Unfortunately, we don’t have any Scala courses yet. We need your help!
  • If you’re an educator, please take a look at the Quickstart Guide and try to create your own course. If you need our support or want to help create Scala learning materials, please let us know. If you’re a learner, do share your favorite Scala learning materials with us! Just leave a comment here or contact us on Twitter.
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If you’ve ever wanted to learn Python programming, get ready to be blown away.

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Today we’re launching the free and open source PyCharm Educational Edition for students and teachers. This easy-to-use yet powerful Python IDE includes special interactive educational functionality to help novice programmers learn the craft and turn professional quicker than ever before! It combines the easy learning curve of interactive coding platforms with the power of a real-world professional tool.

Education

Why PyCharm Educational Edition?

We all know that computer programming studies are one of today’s major global trends, driven by open-access, non-credit education. Python has long been used for educational purposes and is now the most popular language used to teach programming for beginners. We decided to create this new educational IDE, because we at JetBrains PyCharm, being a part of the Python community, are committed to providing quality, professional, seamless solutions for learning programming with Python, keeping the needs of both novice programmers and educators in mind.

What is so special about PyCharm Educational Edition?

In designing this tool we have been inspired by Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, who said:

“We believe that there should be no clear-cut distinction between tools used by professionals and tools used for education—just as professional writers use the same language and alphabet as their readers!” https://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e/

PyCharm is a professional tool recognized among professionals all around the globe. At some point it occurred to us that, with some work, its power could also be harnessed to serve educational purposes.

We analyzed educational trends and tools on the market carefully. To understand what should be improved in PyCharm and how to make it the best educational IDE possible, we polled hundreds of instructors from different universities all around the world.


We found out that there are two opposite approaches to learning programming. One is based on using interactive online educational platforms and editors, which are extremely easy to start with. Despite an easy learning curve, these are not real development tools, and once you get used to them it may be difficult to switch to a real development environment and develop something real. The other approach is centered around real code editors and IDEs tools. While advanced, they are often too complex for beginners. Instead of learning programming, you must invest considerable efforts and time just into understanding how the tool works, before actually learning the essentials of programming.

PyCharm Educational Edition aims to combine both these two worlds. We’ve made it easy to get started with, not intimidating, yet powerful enough to guide you all the way through to becoming a professional developer.

All the learning you need, for FREE

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PyCharm Educational Edition is absolutely free and open-source. Novice programmers can download and use it for educational or any other purposes—for free. Instructors and course authors can use it to create, modify and share their own courses.

Included are learning essentials like an integrated Python console, Debugger and VCS, along with unique educational features such as “fill in the missing code” exercises, intelligent hints, checks, smart suggestions, code auto-completion, and much more.

So, what’s inside, besides the PyCharm Community Edition?

  • Special new Educational project type. From a student’s point of view, an Educational project is like an interactive course that includes tasks and files for editing, and a Check button that gives instant feedback and scores your assignment. With this type of project, teachers can create courses or assignments with lessons and tasks, create exercise code, define expected results, write tests that will work in the background. In particular, they can employ the “fill in the missing code” educational technique where you ask a student to insert the correct code in an already existing code sample.
  • A greatly simplified interface to make the learning curve as easy as possible. The advanced tools are hidden by default and may be activated as you progress.
  • On Windows, Python is installed together with PyCharm, with no additional installation required. Linux and Mac OS installers automatically detect a system interpreter. All you need to start learning is just to install PyCharm.

Possible Applications

PyCharm Educational Edition can be used in MOOCs, self-studying courses or traditional programming courses. In addition to going through interactive courses, you can also use normal Python projects and the integrated Python console, as well as the debugger, VCS, and everything else that PyCharm already offers.

What to do next?

Don’t wait any longer — download PyCharm Education Edition for your platform and start learning Python programming today!

For more details and learning materials, visit the PyCharm Educational Edition website and check the Quick Start guide to get rolling. Or, for a quick visual overview, watch this introductory video:

Then, get involved:

  • Spread the word about this tool
  • Follow us on twitter
  • Report bugs in our public issue tracker
  • Discuss and share in our forum
  • And if you need any help, you’re always welcome to contact our professional support team

Read our blog to stay tuned for news, updates and everything that goes on with PyCharm Educational Edition. And do give us feedback on how we’re doing.

Did you know?
JetBrains recently launched the Free Student License program. With this program any student or educator can use any JetBrains product for free!

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