Practicum Bootcamp

I have been teaching high school English since I graduated from my university. A few years ago, I started to think about switching my career and seriously considered coding. The idea of building something from scratch and being beneficial to online businesses... Read More at the same time had been stuck in my head for some time. I chose data analysis because I wanted to challenge myself and see how my humanitarian mindset could perform in the analytical field. While researching different boot camps such as GA, Galvanize, Fullstack, I discovered Practicum by Yandex. I was impressed by the curriculum, study approach, and most importantly, the Career Acceleration Program upon graduation. And you get all of that for a very reasonable price. I graduated a month ago and am now taking part in the Career Acceleration program. The study process was great, as I managed to acquire all the needed skills for an entry-level job —Python, SQL, ML, working with databases, and building with them from scratch. In just six months, not only did I obtain those skills, I got to see how they are implemented. Currently, I've completed two mock interviews, provided by Practicum's team, and have built my professional portfolio, filled with the projects I had completed throughout the course. In fact, I already have several interviews with companies scheduled for next week, and I am beyond excited about what lies ahead. To sum it up, I would highly recommend Practicum to people who want to make a career change. Practicum works with you every step of the way, from helping you understand what coding is and how the industry works, to landing your first position.

All around an amazing class. Highly recommend taking it and taking full advantage of your resources, including the tutor access, hosted events, and network. Practicum's long-form, flexible class structure allows for a work-class-life balance unheard of... Read More in most other bootcamps, in person or remote. PROS: - Wide variety of topics in the course I took (I took the part-time web development course) - Uses up-to-date techniques, technology, and best practices - Remote, full-time or part-time classes offered - Tutors, advisors, and other support are easy to reach, accessible, extremely helpful and kind - they WANT to help the students - Community managers work with students to help them as much as possible in the event of unusual life circumstances, unexpected events, etc. The Practicum staff wants the students to succeed instead of "weeding them out", which has been continually amazing - Course work is VERY challenging and engaging, and continually changes and builds upon the same foundation. Great for spaced repetition! - Courses are structured around a few major projects the students develop over many weeks or even months, so when these projects are done, a TON of stuff was learned and used - Plenty of opportunities to join community events hosted by the staff - Good amount of career advice and assistance with getting hired CONS: - More 1 on 1 or small group time with an instructor and/or tutor would have been very helpful - Rather frequent class interactive platform bugs, connection issues, or certain quizzes being too picky with answers (though, the creators ARE receptive to suggestions for improvement!) - Lecture-style live teaching only occurred once every 2 weeks or so, and sessions were typically short. More active and live time with instructors would give it a much higher quality educational experience

My experience with the Practicum web developer intro course has been very positive. The lessons are engaging and interactive. I haven't used the extent of their support team yet, but it seems vast. The intro webinar was inclusive and made me feel welcome... Read More to be part of the program. The only issue I had with a project was remedied quickly by my coach, Phoenix, who took their time to voice chat with me so it could be resolved. With all this happening in just the intro, I feel confident going through the whole program.

I started learning Data Science a year ago through MOOC's like Udemy, Coursera but after completing so many of those program, I was lost when it comes to starting a project. I did not know how to structure my thinking the data science way. I started looking... Read More for project based bootcamp that would not cost an arm and a leg. After reviewing various bootcamp in the US, I settled for Practicum by Yandex Data Scientist bootcamp. Firstly because it was cheap and you end up with 15 real life projects. Also, because the first Sprint which was free was so attractive to turn down. The curriculum is structured like a real tech company where you train on the platform for a week or two and work on a project the next week. After completing the first free sprint, I was hooked. I fell in love with the platform so much that I was coding at any free time I have. If your goal is to learn to code for real, think like a data scientist or analyst, then Practicum by Yandex is for you. My favorite part of the program is the project and code review. It can also be the annoying part because project review can take two to three cycle with corrections back and forth with your reviewer. At the end when your project is approved, there is that satisfaction that comes from achieving a feat. I love the weekly webinars on different topics in data science and the fact that you can connect with your tutors and peers through a common slack channel. My coding has improved from the live coding section with tutors. I believe that I am truly on my way to becoming a data scientist. I am currently in the 10 sprint but I already have some interviews lined up based on the strength of my portfolio. There is the optional career development at the end of the program for the US market with job guarantee but I haven't gotten there yet to see how good it is but I can tell you, with the strength of what I have done so far, getting a job shouldn't be a problem.

I started learning data analytics by doing various courses online and realised this is the kind of career path I want to shift towards. Then I want to engage in some more comprehensive, intense, but also practical learning to develop and consolidate my... Read More skills. That's when I found Practicum by Yandex among all the bootcamps available online. Fast forward 6 months later, I just had my final projects approved and also successfully completed two company projects in the meantime. It has been such enjoyable and rewarding learning experience, not without its challenges which I value equally, if not more. I appreciate every aspect of the course: the design of the learning platform, the community support, the projects I worked on, and the people I've got to know. I can't say enough good things about the course. There are two things I'm most impressed by the course. One is the comprehensive support we had. The community manager, instructors and tutors are there really supporting the students to get the most out of the course. I'm not sure how they did it but the platform online support is 24/7! Whenever I got stuck with a task, I sent an inquiry via the platform tech support, the response is almost straightaway from real people, despite all the time differences. That's very impressive and helpful! Another is the opportunity to work on projects for real companies. These are the most challenging because the data we worked with are a lot more complex in terms of both structure and sources, and there are lots of contextual factors to take into account in the process of analysis as well. So the learning never stops, and working on these projects to help the companies to achieve their business goals has been very rewarding experience. In brief. I highly recommend the course to anyone who are thinking of either consolidating their knowledge in data analytics or learning new skills.

Joining the Practicum by Yandex Data Science program was one of the best decisions I have made this year. Right from the introductory course to the full-time program, my entire experience has been excellent. The interactive learning platform contains... Read More relevant coursework accompanied with practical tasks. They even have interesting and funny messages that has kept me glued to learning on the platform. One of the things that stands out to me the most is the 24/7 technical support. Anytime I encountered challenges, the support team was always quick to help unblock me. The people at Practicum are amazing! The community managers care a lot about student's progress and check in often. The tutors, instructors and senior students are very responsive and provide helpful feedback to students via the Slack community and webinars. The program is project-oriented so I get to complete at least one real world project for my portfolio. I also love that the Practicum team is very open to receiving feedback and are constantly looking out for ways to improve the program and student experience. I'm super excited about the opportunity to study Data Science with Practicum and highly recommend them.

I am currently in the Web Development program at Practicum by Yandex. This is a great program! I have been challenged with every project. I have a background in computer networking, but I did not have any prior programming knowledge. I had been a stay-at-home... Read More mom for many years and decided that I wanted to rejoin the workforce but in a new field. I chose Web Development because it would give me the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world and have flexible hours. I came across several boot camps but they did not work with my schedule or were too expensive. I was happy to find that Practicum by Yandex offered a Web Development program that was online and semi-self-paced. When I say “semi-self-paced” I mean that we don’t have a particular time of day to work on our theory or projects. We do in fact have soft and hard deadlines to get theory and projects completed. This program is hard. I have worked very hard to learn the material. You have to dedicate time and energy to this program. I spend a minimum of 6 hours a day on learning, reviewing or implementing what I learned. I am a hands on person, so when I am working on my projects I am able to grasp the theory better. I am impressed by how Practicum tries to keep us connected even though we are all across the world. We use Slack to interact with our classmates, tutors and administrators. They are always asking our opinion on how we feel about the program what changes can they make. Practicum provides live coding sessions, webinars and so many more opportunities to connect with others who are currently working in Web Development. I would encourage anyone looking to get into Web Development to consider Practicum by Yandex. The price for this program is a steal. The knowledge that you will receive is top notch and the staff really cares.

Before attending Practicu By yandex I did not come a technical back nor a math background. I had been looking at boot camps for some time and came across Practicum. After researching each of the different curriculums I decided that Data science is the... Read More one I was most interested in. Short after I started the full program I discovered a passion for data science I didn’t know that I had. The coursework was beyond expectations. They didn’t assume you had knowledge of all the math behind algorithms and they didn’t use terminology that only professional mathematicians would know. They only skills you need to bring to this course are problem solving and googling. If you can do that effectively than you will make it through this course. During the course they offer coursework to prepare for applying for jobs however I found it hard to balance that with my main coursework and my full time job. But you can wait until after graduation and they are still there to help you prepare. They do not put you in contact with employers directly but they do show you great way to contact them yourself. The amount of job support you get is good for the price of the course and great when you consider they don’t have any ISAs or anything like that. In conclusion if your looking for a detailed boot camp with great support from a big name in data science you can do much better than practicum by yandex

I began the Practicum data science course with basic knowledge of Data Analysis and Machine learning. I joined this Bootcamp to expand my knowledge and indeed the tasks were checked manually with useful remarks and tips and I learned a lot and in addition,... Read More I have a nice portfolio with the practicum projects.

Let's start from the bottom line- I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to get in to web development world through a fun yet super serious, intense and high quality course. And that's why: As someone who has never really coded before, I came... Read More in to this adventure with really nothing much to expect. To see if I can enjoy or even handle this type of course I took the free introductory course Practicum by Yandex offers and I was pleasantly surprised how much entertaining the learning platform is and how I felt "glued" to the screen, wanting to pass more and more lessons and tasks. Now, the course is separated into sprints. Each lasts two weeks. In these two weeks you go through quite a charming learning process in the platform (including side jokes, visual explanations and reactive pages to see the code you write actually works). Then there is a project where you implay the knowledge from the lessons. (and are being reviewed) In between there are webinars with people from the industry about a lot of interesting and important topics for the real tech world, live zoom meeting with the mentor and teammates to discuss the next project and more.. From my personal experience all the questions/ worries/ uncertainties I had where answered within minutes(!) from the really wonderful staff members. Whether it's the technical support team who will answer your challenging tasks questions or the community managers and mentors in the interacting platform (Slack). There's always someone to answer your question and it seems like they really care from the students' progress and they are eager to see them finish the course successfully. Plus there are several other channels on Slack where you can communicate with fellow students and share your thoughts, in a very friendly and nice way.