First term results

After the end of the first 'theoretical' part of the course we are glad to present some numbers. Please be aware, that we do not refer to these numbers as to any kind of KPIs, the purpose of them is just to better illustrate the course.

Number of:

• Lectures: 16 lectures (or more than 64 hours, few lecture notes are available)
• Homework tasks: 13 tasks
• Quests: 20 Quests
• Teachers: more than 30 extraordinary speakers and experts
• Internal personal meetings & communications: more than 15 meetings (or more than 50 hours)
• IT companies’ offices visited: 6 offices visited
• Hours, spent by curators team: more than 1000 hours ('8 months' x '22 workday p.month' x '3 curators' x '2 hours per day by each curator').
• Co-located events: 5 events

Course Locations

• Corporate offices: EMC, Microsoft, Intel, Yandex, JetBrains, Google
• State Organizations: National Research University ITMO, St. Petersburg Academic University RAS, Business Incubator ‘Ingria’
• Social events and meeting places: private apartments, ‘Bookvoed’ book shop (cafe), Loft Project ETAGI, resort ‘Vostok-6’.

Organizations represented

Agnitum, Ancor, Business Incubator ‘Ingria’, BodyNova, EMC, Exigen Services, Google, HeadHunter, Intel, JetBrains, Microsoft, Nokia Siemens Networks, Open Web Founation, Opera Software, St. Petersburg Academic University RAS, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, RUSSOFT Association, WikiMedia Foundation, Yahoo! Labs, Yandex, 2Nova.

Wikification

After the first 2 months we have involved our students to make the educational process better and more productive - to guide the course direction, to contact with guest speakers, to develop homework, to collect and analyze feedback, etc.

The experiment turned out well.

• Anastasia Tsvetkova is now a key person responsible for the course visibility.
• Alexey Knorre is now responsible for feedback collecting. Hi also helps with course content definition.
• Dmitry Orlov and Yegor Naumov have tried themselves as Chief Editors.
• Igor Asonov proved himself as the most reliable and high-performing co-curator (negotiations with speakers, quizzes preparation).

Stop-outs and dismisses

We gave a stop-out for Elisaveta Kosyachenko due to her internship at KPMG Advisory.

We were forced to dismiss Alexey Kladov and Anton Zubarev due to their insufficient attention to the course activities (missing deadlines for homework, etc.).

New promotions

We are glad to announce some new promotions:

• Yegor Naumov is now Product Manager Intern @Yandex
• Dmitry Orlov is now Account Manager @2Nova media agency.
• Elisaveta Kosyachenko is now an intern at @KPMGAdvisory (Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services).
• Dina Chubareva is now Manager-Analyst Intern @Yandex
• Alexey Kladov becomes a bio-informatics student project participant in @JetBrains.

Progress in studies

Best quizzes and attendance by Yegor Naumov

Best homework results & quests by Anastasia Tsvetkova

Top-3 students (highscore):

The whole table may be found here.

The current version of the course 2010/2011Summary (RU)

28.04.2011

Sergey Dmitriev

Vladimir Aluferov

Nikolay Vyahhi