All educational projects Mail.Ru Group

We talk a lot about our educational projects, but suddenly we realized that we don’t have a single article where we could collect information about all of our educational opportunities. We decided to correct this unfortunate omission. Now, those wishing to gain knowledge will not have to search all over Habr and the Internet.

Magnificent five - full-time education in universities

We will start with our “locomotives” - five educational projects launched on the basis of the leading technical universities of Russia. Students can choose their IT specialization: a semi-annual or biennial program.

How it works

Students of higher education institutions can study on projects: now there are 67 disciplines in 5 universities. The recruitment takes place twice a year: in September and in February. 1400 students are currently studying on the stream. Teachers: Mail.Ru Group employees are practicing professionals who teach how to solve real problems - 200 people. In the final: Mail.Ru Group certificate and internship with the possibility of employment
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Next admission: September 2017. Choose your university and apply on project sites.



https://park.mail.ru/

Joint project with MSTU. Bauman. This is our first “pioneer” project, it has been operating since 2011. Competition - 9 people per place.

Training program:

• Two-year, in the direction of "System Architect".
• Semester courses:
  
  
  • Basic Linux Administration;
  • Preparatory program for programming in C / C ++;
  • Cuda C / C ++ Programming, Image Analysis and Deep Learning;
  • IOS application development;
  • Perl programming;
  • Python programming.

https://sphere.mail.ru/

Joint project with MSU. Lomonosov. Works since 2014. Competition - 9 people per place.

Training program:

• Biennial, in the direction of "big data analysis".
• Semester courses:
  
  
  • Perl programming;
  • Preparatory course "Algorithms and data structures";
  • Internet application development;
  • Development in C / C ++;
  • Development on Go.
  
  

https://track.mail.ru/

Joint project with MIPT. Works since 2015. Competition - 6 people per place.

Training program:

• Biennial, in areas of "Web development of high-loaded projects", "Mobile development".
• Semester courses:
  
  
  • Perl programming;
  • Linux system administration;
  • DBMS in high load projects;
  • Introduction to industrial programming and data structures.
  
  

https://polis.mail.ru/

Joint project with SPbPU. Works since 2016. Competition - 5 people per place.

Training program:

• Two-year, in the direction of "Java-development of high-loaded applications."
• Semester courses:
  
  • Introduction to Java (intensive).
  
  

https://atom.mail.ru/

Joint project with MEPI. Works since 2016. Competition - 5 people per place.

Training program (semester courses):

• C ++ programming;
• Java development;
• Python programming;
• Perl programming.

Mitapas and office conferences

Small meetings for 2-3 speeches and larger conferences are the most common events for the exchange of experience. In 2016 we spent more than 60. Themes: mobile development (we organize Android Devs Meetup, we host CocoaHeads), Data science, UX (UX-environment, UX-research), programming languages ​​(community meetings Moscow.Python, Go, MoscowJS, YAPS) .

See the schedule - they are held regularly in our office , everyone can come (you need to register), admission is free. But even if you live far away, or could not make time, do not worry - we post videos of speeches .

Lectures and workshops online - Tehnostrim channel

Technostrim is our educational YouTube channel. Here we post videos of speeches and lectures of many training courses taught in educational projects. Today more than 500 videos from lessons are available on the channel. Already 57,000 users. Among them are various workshops conducted by our employees, for example:

• Search and validate new business ideas
• Programming in management
• Freelance testing
• Game design: from idea to release
• Career planning
• E-education: instructions for use
• Presentation of a business idea
• Why did Steve Jobs love fonts
• Personal Time Management
• Nginx: product and company
• First steps in a developer’s career
• 20 mistakes in creating an IT company
• Agile basics
• Meaning IT Career Career
• C ++ for one pair
• Check ideas for a billion

See our post for a great educational selection of materials. Time to learn: digest of free educational materials .

Online courses with RS

For those who cannot learn in our five core full-time education projects, we conduct online courses on the Stepik.org platform. They are held in the form of video lectures and practical tasks. The composition and number of courses varies from time to time, but at the moment the list is as follows:

• In-depth programming in C / C ++ ;
• Web technologies ;
• Setting a task for software development ;
• Development of a web service in Java (part 1) ;
• Development of a web service in Java (part 2) ;
• Multi-threaded programming in C / C ++ ;
• Hadoop. System for processing large amounts of data ;
• Security analysis of web projects ;
• Preparatory program for programming in C / C ++ ;
• Algorithms and data structures .

In 2016, more than 50,000 people enrolled in courses. In addition to courses for developers, a course on UX was released on the Coursera platform.

Online championships for professionals

Someone mistakenly believes that championships are just contests. But at the same time, it is an effective motivator for self-education. To take part in the championship you need not just to be able to program, you need to do it better than others. You need to know and be able to apply the approaches that are most beneficial in the current situation, to be inventive. And without learning and practicing this, it cannot be developed in oneself

Every year we hold five championships: the Russian Code Cup , the Russian AI Cup , the Machine Learning Boot Camp , the Russian Design Cup and the Russian Crypto Cup . Since 2011, 20 championships have been held, in which more than 150,000 people from 17 countries took part. Also, on the basis of Technostart, we hold a separate championship of student IT projects . Watch the problem analysis and get ready for the next step.

Schoolchildren - choice of profession and admission

Tekhnokubok programming Olympiad allows you to get additional points on computer science for admission. Held in partnership with MGTU them. Bauman and MIPT on the Codeforces platform. Students of 8-11 grades can take part in it. View examples of tasks that were last year, here .

Digital Heroes - Choose Your IT Profession

10 professional portraits of specialists creating online projects help to determine the choice of profession:

• backend developer;
• frontend developer;
• mobile developer;
• product designer;
• game design;
• game developer;
• tester;
• information security specialist.

... and some other professions. A description of the daily duties, knowledge and skills required for these professions, interviews with representatives. Choose which profession suits you best.

Certification

If you yourself have mastered some IT-profession, or just want to test your knowledge, you can take part in the Mail.Ru Group certification program . Participants are invited to solve a set of tests. This is not some kind of “universal” set for determining general erudition. Tests are divided into numerous topics . Based on the test results, you will receive a certificate - bronze, silver or gold.

GeekUniversity

Finally, our most recent educational project is GeekUniversity . It is organized in conjunction with the portal GeekBrains.ru. This is the country's first online university that prepares web developers, as well as Android and iOS programmers. The training program is intensive, designed for a year. During this time, middle-developers will be made from newbies. One of the features of GeekUniversity is the guarantee of employment: after completion of the training, graduates will be asked to enter the staff of the project partner companies.

Choose your direction!