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IntelliJ IDEA for Education

IntelliJ IDEA can be used for learning and teaching programming. You can learn Java, Kotlin, and Scala from scratch, or perfect your skills in these languages with interactive courses and programming contests. If you are interested in creating your own courses, you can do it right in IntelliJ IDEA as well.

Start the learning course

  1. Download IntelliJ IDEA to use it for your educational purposes right away. If you need further instructions, refer to the installation guide.

  2. On the Welcome screen, click Learn in the left-hand pane.

  3. In the right-hand pane, click Enable Access under Learn to program and then Get Started.

    Get Started
  4. In the Select Course dialog, select a course you want to take and click Open.

    Select Course

    IntelliJ IDEA downloads the selected course and opens it inside the IDE.

    First project

When the course gets opened inside the IDE, you are ready to start. Its tasks can be easily followed.

If you want to learn more, check out the IntelliJ IDEA for Education webpage.

Course tasks inside IDE

You can also use the main menu to browse other courses, create new ones, or report issues.

Work with the main menu

  • In the main menu, go to File | Learn and Teach to choose options for browsing new courses, create the new or the hyper skill course.

    Learn and Teach
  • Go to Help | Report Issue to EduTools Team to file found issues in the project.

    Report an issue
Last modified: 21 February 2024