Practicum by Yandex

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.

I am currently a in the Web Development Track and I'm in my fifth month. The program is well structured and offers a lot of practice projects to test your skills. One of the recent additions to the Program is Peer Programming where you learn how to work... Read More together with other students on a project. This week I got to work with two other students on a Real world Project . This is really valuable because Teamwork is a much needed soft skill for Web Developers. Another great thing about Practicum by Yandex is How attentive and helpful their team is, Support is available 24/7.

A clear, well-structured free course of Yandex has helped me to make a choice of a Bootcamp. I was really impressed with how good it is made. At the end of the 2-week intro course, I have got a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and not just in theory... Read More but with practice. There are very nice theory presentations that you instantly apply in practice. The layout is nice, all are quality made, support is quick, and, even if I felt stuck, the hunts were not so obvious, so I always felt challenged. I would definitely recommend the Web Developer course of Yandex Practicum.

Before starting free course here at Yandex Practicum, I was kinda thinking about that this might be the same school (coures) as others in Coding World , however after taking part on it , I realized this place that I ever wanted study at. The lessons are... Read More explained interestingly, with the easiest ways and great quality , actually everything is transparent and clear here that I couldn't get before. I learned plenty of experiences at this course in 20 hours(little period) . And with full of motivation I have decided to be and finish this lovely full course in Yandex Practicum.

I had an excellent experience with this program! Highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn web development Curriculum: The curriculum was up to date and well taught. In fact, rather than going to stackexchange or googling for something, I often review... Read More my lessons from this class when I can't remember how to do something or am having trouble with the documentation. There's a lot of information available online that covers similar subjects, but the way Yandex presents it is just better. Especially with javascript, a lot of information can be old or outdated examples that use jquery, not the case for Yandex. They cover basically everything you need to know for the MERN stack: html/css BEM style flexbox/flexgrid javascript es10 (they do an especially good job here) react nodesjs expressjs babel webpack mongodb mongoose REST api modular programming Instructors: The instructors were one of the best parts of the program. I really like the staff and found them very helpful and easy to talk to. You could reach them over slack whenever you are having trouble on a project. Keep in mind, though, that most of them are based in Russia. For me, in Pacific Standard Time, I would usually do my work during the day and send it to be reviewed or to receive feedback if I was having difficulty with the project, and by the next day I would receive feedback from them that I could work on. If you have anything come up during the course and need to take a leave of absence, the staff is very flexible and accommodating. The projects were challenging, but their feedback was extremely helpful and even if you have done some programming before you will really improve a lot. There were clear deadlines for projects that were very reasonable. Job Assistance: There were a few lessons on common whiteboarding questions you might be asked during an interview. There was also an optional project for a real company that groups of 3-4 students could work on, which was an excellent learning experience. After graduating, there is a career acceleration program to help you find a job. Overall Experience: Overall this was exactly what I wanted out of a bootcamp program. I especially recommend it for people who have some background in programming already and want to improve, since you will be challenged and they will leave a lot of constructive criticism on your projects. It can also be challenging because it is a lot of information to cover, but the program is long enough to cover it all well, and you can always come back to the course material if you need to review.

I started Practicum last March and finished in January. The program that I started with now looks different than the program that new students are going through: and it's because they listen. When I found a bug or something wasn't written as clearly as... Read More it could be I reported it. Depending on what the type of issue was: sometimes the issue was corrected by the next day. Other times I'd notice new sections pop up in parts of the course I already went through that added more clarity on topics that we wanted more from. When I went through the sample course, I found I really enjoyed how the curriculum was written it made it easier for me to read through what had otherwise been dry material, and the way that portion was written stayed throughout the program with only a few areas being a bit more on the dry side. There's a little bit of humor in some of the messages when we've succeeded, often making puns on the material we just went over, which also helps with keeping the information a bit better. After finishing the program I've been working with the 'career accelerator' program they have and they're helping me through the job navigation process that spans to 1-1 conversations with someone who is actually helping you fine-tune the different parts in the job search.

I was offered a full time position as a clinical data analyst last November - Practicum by Yandex contributes greatly to this achievement. I love the way the team put a lot of effort in developing the content for the data science curriculum. They teach... Read More us from basic python syntax to complicated machine learning models, and also help us review mathematic concepts in linear algebra, statistics and probability. I think this is a holistic way to approach data science because you need not only to be able to deploy machine learning models, but you need to understand the math behind them, and to be able to preprocess data before running models. Another thing I love about the program is the responsiveness of all the team, from tutor to project reviewer to community manager. This make you avoid confusion on your learning journey as much as possible. The fact that they set deadlines for projects and lessons helps us to keep discipline and follow our goal. They are also flexible enough to grant us a few academic leaves if we can't catch up with the space of the whole group because of our busy schedules. I used a lot of knowledge and skills learned from Practicum to get through job interview and apply for my current job. With these great things, I highly recommend Practicum for those who want to start or switch to Data Science/Analytics career.

very great course in web development .. good review and follow up .. practice everything like a professional study on your own pace good support and answer all your questions cover everything you need as a junior developer long story short they are amazing... Read More

My experience taking Practicum’s Data Scientist program has been spectacular so far! Frankly, I was not sure I would enjoy learning on my own but Practicum’s structure has allowed me to finally grasp things I have seen in other courses and Youtube videos... Read More but never really understood. I think there are 4 reasons why: the focus on hands-on practice, the content, support, and deadlines. As a student, you have to constantly test your knowledge through small tasks and after each module, do projects that look holistically at what was learned so far. The content is non-intimidating (love the cute illustrations!) and simple to understand. No fancy words! The focus is on helping grasp the concept. There is a lot of support from Practicum’s tutors and community manager but also from other students. Somehow I feel like we are part of a group trying to achieve something together despite working individually, helping each other when needed and celebrating each other’s win. Finally, I thrive in having a plan of action to learn and Practicum facilitates this through a mix of realistic soft and hard deadlines to help you stay on track. Now, I can’t see myself ever taking an in-person bootcamp as I remember how often things would go over my head and I didn’t have the space and time to grasp a concept before moving on. To Practicum.. Thanks! You are helping me finally transition from a data analyst to a data scientist and I can’t wait to see what will come next in my caree