Obtain Intel Programming Certifications Without Leaving Home

Hello, dear Habr. I am 26 years old and I'm a bearded programmer without a college degree. I would like to receive it, but I could not. I don’t think that this is alien to you: instead of going to university and studying modern and interesting things, they make you learn Pascal under DOS there.

It's cute and funny, but I have no idea why I need it. So I could not stand it - you understand what I mean. On the other hand, without training in any way, you have to learn constantly and a lot. We all read articles and books on the Internet, but articles are usually very one-sided and incomprehensible, and books have to be read diagonally due to tons of water in them. What to do, you ask me, my dear Habr.

A university is not the only place where you can learn anything. In recent years, distance education has begun to rapidly develop, on the hub there is an excellent article titled " 27+ resources for online learning ." An excellent selection, with one small exception, is links to training there, and not with us, in English. I freely read technical literature and a dictionary of fiction, but such courses are given to me with difficulty.

As it usually happens with us - if they do something useful and good, they will never tell about it (as they did not tell about the Electro-L satellite ). Well, why? Suddenly, people will use it and it will be convenient.

Intel has collaborated with lecturers at laboratories in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk State Universities and has developed several online courses for distance learning. In Russian. Is free. With the issuance of certificates of completion of courses. But no one knows about this. Except me. And I'll tell you a little about it.

Courses are created in three different levels of difficulty, so the conclusion is not limited to Hello world, but you have to start from this hell. Two types of certificates can now be obtained: Intel Parallel Programming Professional (IPPP) and Intel Mobile Programming Professional (IMPP).

It’s nice to look at the course about compilers, and at the same time understand that this is a modern course about modern compilers for modern processors and the course was written with the help of a company that develops these processors and the same compilers. First-hand in Russian and free of charge. There is also a Great Purpose - a certificate. I don’t know how much it helps to find a job in real life, but the certificate is pleasant right away for two reasons: firstly, it is interesting to receive it, and secondly it will be followed by an independently completed course and a whole mountain of knowledge.

And some students are lucky (for some reason I’m sure that they don’t even suspect about it) and they can take some of these courses directly as part of their studies at the university (guess where you need to study for this). Well, everyone can sign up for short-term courses: once again feel like a student and start attending lectures, and do practical tasks at night to be sure to complete everything by morning.

A complete list of courses does not fit on the screen, and they are quite diverse in subjects. While I was considering it, I accidentally started taking the course on android, and I'm still wondering. I hope I get the first certificate in my life.

But, of course, there are nuances. For example, in a welcome letter they warn that it just won’t be able to communicate with a living teacher. I do not know how true this is - I have not yet had such a need. But you can chat on the forum with people who are taking the same course as you.

This same welcome letter made me laugh:

Some students, after several unsuccessful attempts, write messages in the forum and letters to the administration and course authors that the system does not work correctly - do not do this. The system is working properly.

I still can’t get rid of the feeling that his man wrote to him who doesn’t give a damn about what he is doing. Very rare, by the way.

useful links

Full list of courses.
Detailed description on the Intel site.
Nearest short-term courses.

Upd : ntz reports that:

Also, at Ural State University on Intel training materials, a course "Optimizing the performance of computing applications", dedicated to the Intel compiler and the Intel MKL library, is currently taking place.

Upd : if you want to print a certificate, and not just look at it on the Internet, it will cost you a little money, FWhisper tells how much:

On Intuit, the electronic version in the “normal” resolution (for viewing, pasting into blogs and documents, etc.) is free of charge (example in Russian and in English ). In quality sufficient for printing - 50 p. In paper form by mail - 400 p.