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As they say, "a crisis is a time of opportunity." And so now is the time to start investing in self-development, to master a new profession, or to improve their skills. Learn to learn programming languages, acquire development skills, test, and generally pump your IT skill in every possible way. After all, the more you know, the stronger you will be on your feet. And to make it easier for you to navigate and choose the direction, we made a selection of our free educational materials, courses and initiatives for the years 2015-2016.

IT.Mail.Ru

Information about various IT conferences, meetings, held in our office, and training programs are scattered throughout Runet. And you can often miss interesting events. IT.Mail.Ru is conceived as an educational and informational portal where beginners and experienced specialists can sign up for a meeting of interest, find all of our educational activities, broadcast recordings of lectures, lectures and seminars, as well as information about vacancies, various championships and much more .
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Technopark, Technosphere and Technotrek

These are three educational projects implemented jointly with three leading universities in Russia:



Technopark is a joint project with MGTU. Bauman
Technosphere - a joint project with Moscow State University
Tehnotrek - a joint project with MIPT

Students of these educational institutions have the opportunity to study various IT disciplines under the guidance of teachers - employees of the Mail.Ru Group. Training programs in all three projects are designed for two years. And we lay out many educational materials for general access for those who want to plunge into the world of self-study.

Technopark Lectures:

• 1st semester. Web technologies
• 1st semester. Algorithms and data structures
• 1st semester. C / C ++
• 2nd semester. Database
• 2nd semester. Java
• 3rd semester. Design of high-load systems

Lectures of the Technosphere:

• 1st semester. Algorithms for intelligent processing of large amounts of data
• 1st semester. Methods of using DBMS in Internet applications
• 2nd semester. Modern methods and tools for building information retrieval systems
• 2nd semester. Methods of distributed processing of large amounts of data in Hadoop
• 2nd semester. Quality Assurance and Testing Methods for Web Applications

If you think that there is no better teacher than a good and sensible book, you can use the list of textbooks for Technopark students:

• Tehnokniga, part 1: literature on web technologies, algorithms and data structures, in-depth C ++ programming
• Tehnokniga, Part 2: Literature on DBMS, Frontend Development, Interface Design and In-depth Java Programming
• Tehnokniga, part 3: literature on the design of highly loaded systems, on the security of web applications, on ensuring the quality of development and on mobile development
• Tehnokniga, Part 4: literature on product management, web services development, web project management, business and systems analysis of architects

Online courses from Mail.Ru Group on Stepic

Despite all the advantages of the training programs of Technopark, Technosphere and Technotrack, only a few lucky students from among the students of these universities can get this knowledge. But knowledge should be accessible to everyone. Therefore, we launched several copyright online courses on the Stepic site.

To date, our employees teach seven courses:

• Algorithms and data structures
• C / C ++ Programming Preparatory Program
• Multi-threaded C / C ++ programming
• Hadoop. System for processing large amounts of data
• Developing a web service in Java (part 1)
• Developing a web service in Java (part 2)
• Web technologies

Also on Stepic was held the course “ Analysis of the safety of web projects ”, and on the free site “Universarium” took the course “ Basics of software testing ”.

Selected materials

We also selected several interesting materials for you:

• Master class "20 mistakes in creating an IT-company"
• Master class by Vladislav Biryukov "E-education: instructions for use"
• Search and verification of new business ideas: a look from the dark side
• Programming in management. The story of one student Baumanki
• Game design from idea to release
• Master class by Boris Wolfson. Agile basics
• Master class by Dmitry Sklyarov. DRM: yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Master class by Alexei Rybak “About the fact that I would like to be told while I was studying”
• Dmitry Voloshin's master class “Meaning. IT career
• Master class "Mosigra: Creating a non-tech business techie"
• Master class "The use of good old mathematics in modern Internet marketing"
• Master Class "36"
• Master class "Nginx: product and company"
• Master class "Why Steve Jobs loved fonts"
• Master class "Modern trends and SEO strategies"
• Master class "Career planning"
• Master class "Presentation of a business idea"
• Master class "OK: how we cut features"
• Master class "Cloud storage on the example of Windows Azure"
• Master class "Development and operation of video hosting"
• Master Class "Artificial Intelligence in Applications"
• Master Class "Apple Development"
• Master Class "Personal Time Management"
• Master class "Full-text search"
• Master class "Freelance testing"
• Master class "C ++ for one pair"
• Master class "From an artilleryman to a manager in Yandex"
• Master class by K. Osipov “What is special about the DBMS for in-memory data”

Our Moscow office regularly hosts themed meetings. At these meetings, you can usually hear two or three reports on a variety of topical development issues. In turn, we post videos of all speeches on IT.Mail.Ru in the appropriate section .

Certificates to the masses

Do you think that you have already reached some heights? Well mastered some language, but do not have any diplomas and other evidence? Perhaps you have quite a decent qualification, but you know, gentlemen do not have a word for it. In this situation, you will help the project " Certification Center ". It is enough to choose the right direction, solve the proposed tests and get a certificate from the Mail.Ru Group, confirming the level of your knowledge.

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During 2015–2016, about 60 meetings took place in our office, with a dozen conferences, over 50 seminars, round tables and lectures, as well as a number of specific events, such as the show of the popular film “Particle Passion” and the popular science set. Up . And in conclusion, we can recommend visiting our blog more often: we regularly publish author posts and translations of interesting articles devoted to practical and theoretical issues of programming and development.