The results of GeekWeek 2016 and the return of the terrible BAG: winter with GeekBrains



    On November 14-19, the educational portal GeekBrains, together with Mail.Ru Group, held the online conference GeekWeek 2016 for beginners and experienced IT professionals. For those who are not up to date, the IT sphere is one of the fastest growing areas in the economies of most countries of the world. Continuous development requires a lot of resources. And the main resource is man.

    For this reason, the GeekWeek 2016 online conference is held every year. The main goal is not only to interest in the field of information technology, but also to provide practical skills necessary for a successful career start.

    Within 6 days, speakers from large companies in Russia and the world held 61 free workshops. More than 65,000 conference participants tried themselves in various areas of programming, web design and Internet marketing, pumped their skills and learned firsthand about current trends and features of professions. The most active participants got the opportunity to learn the chosen profession for free.


    The final day of the conference was held in the Moscow office of the Mail.Ru Group, where almost a thousand invited "Hikvikists" listened to the speakers, talked and had fun in the format of "Education & Entertainment". Conference materials are available on our portal.

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    For this conference, the educational portal GeekBrains prepared a joint gift with the EnglishDom online school of English. Students of paid programs received an English course for IT professionals and a year of free access to the EnglishDom service. The conference passed, but the gift remained. Users of GeekBrains, when purchasing complex occupational programs, get the opportunity to learn English as a gift. GeekBrains is constantly sharing interesting content and various interactions. In 2016, we conducted 708 training streams, recorded 241 webinars and published 472 articles.

    On Programmer's Day, September 9th, the GeekBrains team asked all users to help fight a fictitious virtual enemy. To defeat him, you had to “fix a bug” on the site. Tens of thousands of students went through a small quest: “neutralized the bug” and received valuable prizes and discounts. The truth is that the "Dark Algorithm" (you know what It is ?!) is not asleep. While everyone was celebrating the victory, he stole the source code for the “bug”. For two months, he used the dangerous code and unsafe variables to turn the bug into something terrible.

    The new bug attack was December 13th! Website GeekBrains attacked CyberBug! His main goal is to spoil the New Year for all GeekBrains participants, all the gifts are now in his small insidious paws. Well, brave habravchane, let's help bring the New Year back to GeekBrains! Rumor has it that those who managed to destroy CyberBag receive a whole bunch of gifts and a 45% discount on any IT profession. Check it out?

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