Local communities begin to return to life after the holidays and organize joint leisure activities in different ways - from informal gatherings to harsh hakatons. In our today's review, gamedev, blockchain and long-playing courses prevail for those who decide to enter the new year with a new profession, language or technology.
MeetUP Molinos: Design Features Using BlockchainWhen: January 18
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Lev Tolstoy, 9, Tolstoy Square Business Center
Participation conditions: free, registration required
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The beginning of a whole series of blockchain-oriented mitap from the studio Molinos. On the agenda are technical aspects of working with cryptocurrencies and crypto platforms. Presenters will analyze the propagation of errors when creating an ICO platform and a smart contract, working with Bitcoin and Ethereum on the server side, as well as working with Ethereum in mobile applications (subscriptions, replacing nonce in transactions, reconnecting and typing).
GAMEDEV.HOUSEWhen: January 20
Where: Moscow, st. Trifonovskaya, 57, p. 1
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The event is for those who make or want to make games with a full set: reports from lecturers who are familiar with the industry, free communication with like-minded people, showcases of indie-developer projects, stands from gaming companies, VR-zone, games and prizes. The speeches will look at various components of the project’s success: the role of the individual, the process of self-education, the sequence of steps in the process of creating the game, mastering the game design profession, and so on. As a cherry on the cake - the opportunity to play in a new, promising desktop: gamedev simulator.
Basic Course HTML LayoutWhen: January 22 - March 5
Where: Moscow, Kronverksky Avenue, 23
Participation conditions: 30 000 rubles.
Refresher courses for continuing layout designers. The organizers are threatening that during the training, the developers will perform about 200 various tasks and acquire the ability to create websites of any complexity and understand someone else's code. More specifically, the program includes the following topics: basic HTML5, cascading style sheets, block document model, modular grids, Flexbox, adaptive layout, interactive elements, forms, and jQuery library.
Blockchain developerWhen: January 22 - March 17
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Embankment, 6, p. 3
Conditions of participation: 47 000 rubles.
Those who wish to write on the blockchain can master this pool of skills in nine weeks of classes under the command of experienced specialists and researchers in the field, and at the same time make business contacts for the future. The program covers the principles of operation of popular blockchain systems, the construction of protocols and applications based on technology and the latest developments in the market. The January classes will be devoted to basic concepts and rules (history and specificity of distributed systems, block structure, mining algorithms and strategies), followed by node vivisection, the study of smart contracts, anonymization, alternative consensus options and protocols. Finally, at the end of the course, graduates will be able to test their knowledge in a closed hackathon, which will be held on the site.
HUG themed mitapWhen: January 24
Where: St. Petersburg, Smolensk Avenue, 60A
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The third educational mitap for lovers of high-loaded systems will be devoted to the design patterns "turn" and "pipelining". Namely: when they need and do not need to be applied, what it gives and what risks arise, as well as how interservice interaction fits into the picture in SOA and statistics processing. You can come both as a listener and as a speaker.
Meetup for Data ScientistsWhen: January 24
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Opticians, 4, Bldg. 3, lit. A, BC "Lakhta-2", 7th floor
Participation conditions: free, registration required
New Year, New Meetings for Data Workers - this time, those who are interested in Bayesian methods in building models and the benefits of graph databases will be especially pleased. The speakers will address these topics in their stories about probabilistic modeling in Stan language and the practice of using Apache TinkerPop. All that remains unclear can be clarified with them at the end of the event, when they add pizza and drinks.
PANDA-MEETUP # 11When: January 26
Where: Samara, st. Novo-Sadovaya, 3, Promsvyazbank office
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Already traditional Samara Panda-mitap for developers in C #. NET offers in January six reports from local and visiting programmers (Promsvyazbank, Dodo Pizza, Mercury Development and other teams). As always, the variation is significant: here asynchronous interaction of services, SignalR in the light of the .NET Core output, Docker containers (again, with the .NET Core), personal experience with the MS SharePoint platform, the CQRS pattern, and the benefits of code analyzers when refactoring
GraphQL workshopWhen: January 26
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Zastavskaya, 31, korp. 2
Participation conditions: 9500 rub.
GraphQL master class with a high concentration of practical knowledge. Participants will have to spend eight hours developing a client-server GraphQL Javascript application from scratch to production. Of the requirements: a laptop, as well as NodeJS, Git and VSCode on it. Without going into the bare theory, teachers will consistently review with the audience a wide range of applied tasks (setting up an Express server, approaches to creating GraphQL schemes, a bunch of types, queries, mutations, connecting a database, authorization, components and fragments, static analysis) on applied tasks , answer questions and help with any difficulties in the course of work.
Hackathon PhotoHack from Photo LabWhen: January 26-27
Where: Moscow, Bersenevskaya Embankment, 63, 6th floor
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Photo Lab managed to create a viral IT product and now it inspires others to follow its lead. The task of the hackathon is formulated in the following way - developing a viral web service for working with visual content that could be integrated into the Photo Lab application. API and technology for work will be provided by the organizers. Participate in chellendzhe invited developers, designers, and just people, gushing ideas. The January round will be qualifying, and the final winners will be determined after the MVP is finalized in February. The prize fund is more than a million.
Javascript courseWhen: January 30 - March 6
Where: Moscow, Kronverksky Avenue, 23
Participation conditions: 30 000 rubles.
Incubator for beginners: the basic concepts and principles of the language, as well as the analysis of standard tasks (galleries, sliders, timers, calculators, checking forms). Students need to have a general idea of HTML + CSS and be able to somehow work with Git - the rest will follow. In ten classes, the class will follow the following path: data types, type casting, operators and cycles, DOM structure, functions, recursion, events, networking, assembly, AJAX and JSON, introduction to ReactJS. For clarity, teachers include many practical tasks and work on their own projects in the program.