Practicum by Yandex

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.

I am a Web Development track student here at Practicum by Yandex. Previously, I have attempted and failed many times at teaching myself the in's and out's of web development. Practicum has changed that for me. The program is challenging, realistic, and... Read More provides a sense of community for its students. The curriculum itself is based off of real world work, which can be difficult to find in other programs. There is also no need to worry when you may be having trouble with understanding certain concepts. There are tutors excited to assist you with learning these strange concepts, while even providing additional resources to help you work through the problems. Aside from the tutors, there are also opportunities to pair program with other students who are in the same or different cohorts than yourself. The program makes it very easy to communicate with other students via Slack. There are constant opportunities to grow within your chosen program such as webinars, live coding, and so much more!

It has been a real pleasure to be part of this program as a student. It has allowed me to acquire skills and knowledge to face the problems of a real data scientist. All this has been possible thanks to the great support received by the Yandex team at... Read More all times even after the program is finished to guide us as professionals that we are going to be.

I've enjoyed my time at Yandex practicum. The program is well-structured and comprehensive: you get to apply your newly acquired knowledge to practice right away. Besides studies, there is an awesome community of peers and tutors. Also, there are plenty... Read More of additional webinars and information, opportunity to work on projects for real companies and even a career acceleration program! Thanks to all that, I've found a new job in the area of data analytics in 3 weeks after I've finished my course.

This course strikes a great balance of being remote and part-time, yet still remaining engaging and social. Like most courses, you will get out what you put in. With Practicum's Web Development course, if you put in the bare minimum, you still take a... Read More significant deep dive into front-end web development. You'll graduate the course (perhaps taking a hiatus or two if you can't keep up) with a full portfolio of impressive projects, useful skills relevant to today's industry, and experience working with a sprint-based workflow. If you're able to spend more time with the course material, you'll learn soft-skills (pair-programming, code-review, open source development etc.), build a network, and add even more depth to your portfolio. Everyone on the team developing this program has a vested interest in growing the program and making sure the students learn. This is evident by the consistent stream of new features added to the education platform as well as the development of new roles, groups, and events all geared towards creating a more robust education for the students. The cost of this course is a fraction of the cost of other programs. Ultimately, you're probably looking at this review wondering: does this program work? While I'm still a student, I can offer some perspective. There are people in my cohort who have not passed certain modules and have needed to take a hiatus and join a later cohort. There are also people in my cohort who have already gained employment while taking the course. This should communicate two things: 1) This course isn't a freebie. It's hard. Not everyone who enrolls will pass. You will need to learn and apply yourself in order to progress. 2) If you apply yourself and progress you will learn the skills you need to learn to gain employment in the industry. Who do I recommend this course to: - Someone who is both willing and able to dedicate themselves to the process - 25+ hours a week - Someone looking for a remote course with an active community - Primary interactions occur via slack and zoom, with plenty of facetime if you want it or no facetime if you don't. - Someone looking for a program that charges prices that accurately reflect the value of the education. - $5,000 as of April 21st, 2021 - Someone looking to dive deep into front-end web development - You will graduate with a solid foundation in Front End Web Development and an understanding of Back End Web Development. — 1) Staff have a vested interest improving your level of knowledge and the quality of your education 2) Two-week sprint format (a few days of theory similar to the free course with a project due by the end of the sprint) accurately reflects a workflow common in the industry 3) Projects help practice and ingrain skills learned in the theory portion of the sprint. 4) Reasonably cost for a quality education. 5) Plenty of optional extra curriculars to interact with student from your cohort as well as the rest of the program. 6) Interacting with students from all over the world — 1) No in person offerings as of yet 2) Given the global nature of the community, it may be difficult to find times to interact with your peers. With Practicum-wide events becoming more available, this increases the likelihood of meeting peers. 3) Everyone creates the same projects, for the most part. This is meant to allow tutors to be able to give guided instruction to all, and to allow code reviewers to provide more in depth assistance. This works, the practice is real and the feedback is helpful. The projects display deep levels of knowledge. If you want to create a project that will be the pinnacle of your portfolio, however, you will need to do that on your own. 4) The program is young! While I personally see that mostly as a pro, meaning that there is a clear vested interest from the staff in the success of the program, it's just too early to compare this program to those massive ancient bootcamp that present "audited outcomes reports".

I liked the content of the course. Theory is explained based on real tasks. Personally I don't like imaginary tasks, hence task and explanations were so attractive for me. Also, interactive environment was very good, e.g. sometimes I can study and do... Read More my exercises while laying down with my ipad :). Another most liked thing about the platform is 24/7 support, whenever you need a support, you just write to the chat, and in a minute you got a reply. It is amazing! For now, I just finished free introductory part of the Data Scientist program, this is free, So everyone can taste (try) about it. The real program will start after 2 days, and then I will update my impressions about real courses. Hopefully I will enjoy it.