JetBrains Academy – July Digest

Somewhere between the fifteenth open tab and the third iced coffee, it hit me. Maybe we don’t hate meetings. We just hate the ones where nobody has anything to say.

Welcome back to another mandatory meeting. This one’s got range: Kotlin just turned 15, IntelliJ IDEA Conf dropped a lineup worth clearing your calendar for, and pandas got the glow-up nobody asked for, but everyone actually needed.

Learning highlights

Build AI apps and agents with Ardit Sulce

Ardit Sulce’s Gen AI Engineer Bootcamp walks you through building actual AI applications: a local coding assistant, RAG apps, Google Sheets automations, image-aware AI apps, and a voice AI assistant. Free hands-on practice, right in PyCharm.

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Mastering pandas (the library, not the animal)

If you’ve ever opened a CSV and hoped a merge would just work, you’ve already used pandas. Our new course, built straight from the official docs and wired into your IDE, skips the six-hour video lecture and gets you writing real code with real-time feedback instead. You’ll finish with two portfolio-ready projects: a TED Talks recommender and an LLM compute cost analysis.

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Kotlin turns 15, and Hyperskill’s throwing the party

Fifteen years of Kotlin, and somehow it still feels like the new kid who’s better at everything. To celebrate, Hyperskill is giving new users free access to its full Kotlin catalog through October 9. Built by the team behind IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin is Google’s official pick for Android, fully interoperable with Java, and shareable across platforms with Kotlin Multiplatform.

Join Hyperskill

IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026: The full program is live

Two days, one JVM’s worth of everything. The full program for IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 is out! Join us on September 8–9 for practical talks on modern Java and Kotlin, where the JVM’s headed next, AI-assisted workflows, tooling, and performance – straight from the people who actually build this stuff.

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Learning Python in the Age of AI

We sat down with Sheena O’Connell, a Director of the Python Software Foundation, to talk about tutorials vs. AI chatbots, why fundamentals still matter, teaching Python in schools, and why getting your hands dirty on real projects still beats prompting your way through. It’s genuinely worth the watch, especially if you’ve been leaning on a chatbot more than you’d like to admit. (No judgment, we’ve all been there).

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And that was the whole agenda for today’s meeting. Pick whatever catches your eye, and we’ll be back with more next month.