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Hone your algorithm skills during today’s event ‘**’ featuring two ICPC World Champions! Pavel Mavrin and Pavel Kunyavskiy will tackle problems from the last Kotlin Heroes: Episode 9. Join us live today at 18:00 CET and ask your questions:

JetBrains Academy has started a series of livestreams crafted especially for teachers and educators. Join us for a livestream ‘10 Strategies for Launching Students Into the Software Industry’ on Tuesday, April 23, at 4:00 pm UTC!

Watch our video on how educators can adapt teaching methods to match Gen Z students’ diverse learning styles, programming experience, and hybrid learning environments – all while preventing personal burnout. Discover the best practices crafted by our speaker, Danny Dig, based on his more than 20 years of educational experience at esteemed institutions like MIT, UIUC, and OSU.

🚀 Get ready for the Kotlin Heroes: Episode 10 coding contest starting in just a few hours! 💻 Don’t miss your chance to win exclusive Kotlin T-shirts and cash prizes. You’ll also be able to sharpen your Kotlin skills with fun algorithmic problems! https://codeforces.com/contests/1958,1959 Slack Conversation

Hello, I'm looking for simple GUI and/or graphic library. I really like Compose but I think it is not ideal for beginners but I will use it with more experienced pupils. I also tried the Java library laterna. It like that it is really simple. Obviously the results are not appealing. I also think that Swing and JavaFX are not very easy to use. Do you have a hint for a library for very simple use cases like programming an arcade game(snake, pong..) or an currency-converter? I only need this library to draw rectangles, show text and get input from the user.

Dear educators! We have a new livestream in the JetBrains Academy series for educators coming up tomorrow, on Tuesday, June 18, at 3:00 pm UTC. Confusion, imposter syndrome, communication issues, and leadership challenges are common at any stage of a professional journey. Educators play a crucial role in helping students navigate these challenges from the start of their careers. Join Andrew Paul’s livestream to explore methods developed from years of training industry specialists, aimed at helping students understand and nurture their professional voices in an increasingly demanding work environment. Register now>> We hope to see you soon!

Hello Educators! kodee welcoming Join us tomorrow, on August 13, at 3:00 pm UTC for a new livestream for educators. Imagine a classroom where students actively solve problems, learn by doing, and have fun while they’re at it! This is the power of Capture the Flag (CTF) in education. With Ivan Agarkov, Infrastructure Lead at Wargaming, you will discover: • The principles of CTF and how to apply them to your lessons. • Practical examples of CTF. • Feedback from students who have experienced this approach to learning. • How to become a “lazy teacher” who empowers students to take ownership of their learning. Register now>> We hope to see you there!

Hello there, is it allowed to translate the resources, presentations from official documentation in order to create the contents and video tutorials in our local language? Besides this, may I create official documentation website in our local language under the domain? Thanks!

Thanks @Ksenia Shneyveys

Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Live Q&A: Have Your Questions Answered! On October 15, join us for a live Q&A session with two Kotlin Multiplatform experts: Developer Advocates @Pamela Hill and @zsmb. As you get ready to submit your entry for the contest, feel free to ask any questions you have about creating Kotlin Multiplatform projects. If you can’t join live, feel free to drop your questions in the comments to this message. We’ll make sure to cover them during the stream! Slack Conversation

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Hello everyone! News from the JetBrains Academy team: JetBrains Academy is looking for individuals to help test an early version of our JetBrains Academy plugin’s integration with learning management systems (using the LTI protocol). We’d love your thoughts and feedback to make it as seamless and valuable as possible for both teachers and students. Here’s what you’ll do if you join: ✨Select a course from our course catalog. ✨Use the plugin with one or more learning management systems to integrate and manage assignments within your courses. ✨Share the plugin and selected assignments with your students. ✨Provide your insights and feedback throughout the process. Your input on everything from setup to student experience will help us improve this tool for everyone! If you’re interested, please email sofia.kolchanova@jetbrains.com. Sofia will provide all the instructions and support you! As a thank you, you’ll receive a $150 Amazon Gift Card or a 1-year subscription to JetBrains All Products Pack upon completing the test and submitting your feedback. 🎉 Thank you! We’d also be very grateful if you could share this opportunity with your fellow teachers and colleagues.

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m excited (and a little nervous!) to share that I’m testing my very first app, WordFlipster, and I need your help to make it better! 🙌 WordFlipster is a fun word game where you reverse words to solve puzzles—it’s simple, challenging, and great for all ages! 🧩 Since I’m new to app development and still learning as I go, your feedback would mean the world to me. Here’s how you can help: 1. Opt-in to the closed test via this link: [https://groups.google.com/g/google-group-closed-testing-2] or [https://forms.gle/1TRSvwqavVzLiFmHA]. 2. Try out the game and explore the features. 3. Share your honest feedback—what you liked, what could be improved, or any bugs you find. The test only takes a few minutes, and you’ll get early access to something I’m truly passionate about creating. 🌟 I’m incredibly grateful for any support or advice you can offer as I learn the ropes of app development. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions. Thanks a ton in advance! ❤️

Hi educators! Advent of Code is here, and JetBrains is proud to sponsor this exciting event. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn new Kotlin features by solving fun puzzles. • with @Sebastian Aigner and expert guests from JetBrains and the Kotlin community who will go live on YouTube to walk through the daily puzzle and chat about solutions and strategies. • Have the support of our amazing community in #C87V9MQFK Slack channel, as learning together makes it all more fun. • Win exclusive prizes! Check out the blog post with all the details. So join in, solve some Advent of Code puzzles, and enjoy the holiday coding spirit with Kotlin! 🎄✨

🔔 ️Less than a month remains for students to submit their projects to the Kotlin Multiplatform Contest! This is their last chance to win a fully covered trip to KotlinConf 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark – including tickets and accommodation. Encourage your students to join: https://kotl.in/contest-lc

Dear educators, Hope you had great winter holidays! ❄️ Could you please share this reminder with your students?

Only one week left to submit your project to the Kotlin Multiplatform Contest!

Don’t miss your chance to win a trip to KotlinConf 2025 in Copenhagen with tickets and accommodation covered.

Submit your project by January 14, 2025 ⤵️

https://kotlinconf.com/contest/

Hello everyone! Here's one more opportunity that might be interesting to the students - volunteering at KotlinConf 2025 kotlinconf24

Become a KotlinConf 2025 volunteer!

📅 When: May 21–23, 2025

📍 Where: Copenhagen, Denmark

🤝 What you’ll do:

• Register attendees

• Help attendees navigate around the venue

• Assist with event administration

✨ What you’ll get:

• Free access to talks when off duty

• Opportunities to meet new people in the Kotlin community

• Regular coffee breaks and a free lunches

Apply before January 20: https://kotlinconf.com/volunteers/

kodee welcoming If you teach programming to beginners, especially at the high school level, we have exciting news! We are working to bring Kotlin support to BlueJ, a very popular beginner-friendly IDE for teaching programming. We expect beta versions to become available for testing in the Spring, and full support being released later this year. Check out the blog post for details and stay tuned for updates: Announcing Kotlin in BlueJ

I am delighted to see this development and the collaboration that is behind it. On the premise of Ghandi’s aphorism, might I ask that some support for rendering any Markdown files within a project directory be included as an additional feature for the app. I found .md files alongside code file in a learner project a neat and effective way of managing all sorts of documentation including tutorial guidance, code reference, test data, design notes etc. Again thanks for bringing Kotlin and BlueJ together!

Hey! I discussed conducting Kotlin workshops at our college with the Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department and received approval to start them next month. I'm planning to introduce Kotlin and Jetpack in the workshop. Does JetBrains offer anything that could excite students and encourage participation?

Hello Im CS professor and im going to introduce Kotlin as a language to solve Criptography problems and teaching Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures, By the way i have some experiennce using DataGRip, Webstorm and Pycharm . Could someone from the jetbrains team support by motivating students to learn Kotlin?

The Kotlin Foundation is taking part in Google Summer of Code 2025 - an online summer internship program! Encourage your students to take this opportunity to contribute to open-source projects in the Kotlin ecosystem and receive mentorship from engineers at JetBrains, Google, Uber, and Gradle. Perfect for beginners! Learn more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/02/google-summer-of-code-2025-kotlin/

Hello, Im a teacher at a vocational school in Germany. This year I use Kotlin in one of my classes. Some of my colleagues are not very happy with this decision. Their main argument is that Kotlin is to different from C++ and the pupils have to learn C++ in their second year. I think learning to programm is more about concepts and to learn a different syntax is not too hard but I see their argument. In the next two weeks we meet to choose a programming language that everbody should teach. So, I have the chance to convince everbody else of Kotlin or I have to use Java😥. Do you have materials about the benefits of learning Kotlin as a first language?

Basis of programming are the same in all languages, (conditionals, loops, functions, operators, data types, arrays) the most important thing for students is to develop programming logic and learn to solve engineering problems by developing applications

📣 Opportunity for high-school students! The Algorithm and Code Training School (ACTS) is coming to Romania this summer. It is an intensive on-site camp is designed for high school students (16-20 years old) who are determined to win medals at international informatics competitions. Read more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/education/2025/03/12/the-algorithm-and-code-training-school-is-coming-back-to-romania-this-june/

Dear educators, Here's an online internship opportunity to share with your students and open source beginners:

Google Summer of Code contributor applications are open!

Interested in working on Kotlin Foundation projects?

Explore guidelines and project ideas: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2025.html

Join our Slack to ask questions: https://kotl.in/gsoc-slack

Hello educators! At this year's KotlinConf, we are introducing an educational track for anyone teaching or interested in teaching Kotlin.

❗ We'd love to have your input!

If you teach Kotlin, please take our 10-minute survey.

It'll help us improve our materials and share some isights during our track.

Also, if you are attending KotlinConf, let me know - I’d love to connect!

Hello, I saw that there is a Kotlin-Heroes-Contest on next Monday. Is ist possible to win prices at this contest?

Kotlin Heroes algorithmic problems contest is happening in just a couple of hours! 🎉 It’s a great chance for you and your students to learn something new about Kotlin and win some prizes!