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!

kotlinconf24 For those attending KotlinConf: Join us at the sessions dedicated to education:

• Build your own Kotlin course

• Help shape the future of Kotlin education (interactive session!)

🗓️ May 22, Room #173, 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm We’d love to see you there! https://kotlinconf.com/schedule/?day=2025-05-22

Can anyone suggest best resources to learn Springboot with Kotlin

Hello, I’m Jason. I run Woowa Tech Course in Korea and Hero Tech Course in Berlin. We do project-based learning. I will leave a detailed explanation in the comments. If you have any questions about our initiative, please feel free to contact me. kodee loving

Hello, educators! kodee welcoming Are you using Kotlin Notebooks in your courses? If so, I'd be happy to hear about your experience. Please DM! Thanks!

Heads-up: on 10 July, we’re hosting a free live session with @marcinmoskala on common Kotlin coroutines mistakes. If that’s up your alley, details are here 👇 https://webinar.kt.academy/common-mistakes-07

For learning Android with Jetpack Compose our students use this training course: https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-compose/ At the moment they cannot see any content in this course (when selecting a unit from this course it shows 0 activities) Does anyone know when the content will become available again?

Free Live Webinar – July 22 Go beyond basics! Learn how Kotlin Flow handles values, errors & completion downstream and how requests travel upstream. Understand core operators & concurrency syncing 🌐 2 time zones 💬 extensive live Q&A 🧔 @marcinmoskala More info and registration 👇 https://webinar.kt.academy/mastering-kotlin-flow-08

Hello, is there something similar to Python-Kara https://elbecker.de/kara/?exerciseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Felbecker.de%2Fkara%2Ftest.karaex or the Java-Hamster https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java-Hamster-Modell in Kotlin? Im looking for a playground in which students can move some object with Kotlin. I am not a big fan of these tools but some guys at my school are against Kotlin because there is no such tool for it.

Dear educators, kodee welcoming Some interesting information for your students: They can apply for the JetBrains Student Pack by September 12 for a chance to win a MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, or reMarkable Paper Pro. Inside the free Student Pack: • JetBrains IDEs with AI • Code With Me: pair programming tool • JetBrains Academy They can claim their free packs here: https://jb.gg/academy/students/free

🧑‍💻 If you haven't tried Kotlin Notebook yet, check out the new blog post to see how it can help you teach programming. Kotlin Notebook lets you combine runnable code, Markdown explanations, and visuals in one interactive space. • It supports incremental execution, allowing you to show language constructs and code snippets in an isolated way, debugging, testing, and rerunning chunks of code without restarting the whole script • Notebooks combine different types of data in a single environment • Everything can be easily shared and launched in preset setups Give it a try and let us know what worked (or didn’t)!

Hello everyone! We’d like to invite all of you to the next webinar: Testing Coroutines 📅 Sept 15 (Mon) 🕐 1pm or 6pm CEST Host: @marcinmoskala 🔗 Register here: https://webinar.kt.academy/testing-coroutines-09 🎥 Recording available after the session

Kotlin Heroes: Episode 13 is starting today! That's a great chance to sharpen Kotlin skills and win a T-shirt kodee happy https://codeforces.com/contests/2141,2142

🔔 Dear educators, please share this news with your students: The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is now open! Students and recent graduates - create a KMP project and you could win a trip to KotlinConf 2026 in Munich, Germany! Let your creativity shine and use modern tech to bring your ideas to life. https://kotlinconf.com/contest