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In this video Anna Bakhvalova gives advice on job hunting and interviewing in tech. Anna runs her own web studio doing marketing, websites and logos.

Denis has been a developer at Intel in Silicon Valley since 2018 and has more than 12 years of experience. He talks about the job hunt and gives pract...

Yuri is a front-end developer at a large company, working on Angular development and architecture. He talks about Angular without going deep into the...

Fedor talks about testing REST services with the SoapUI toolkit. He has been in tech for more than nine years and works as a Senior Java Developer.

This webinar is about micro-frontends. Gleb has been in tech for more than 20 years, the last six of them in commercial front-end development. He expl...

This webinar is about CSS preprocessors. It will be useful to anyone who has not yet worked with a preprocessor, or has never used one with CSS.

A multidisciplinary product designer with more than five years in visual and interactive design. He specialises in mobile UX/UI and web design, and me...

Lev Berezhnoy leads a development team and is the architect of the IT product "Competition Builder", used to run competitive procedures digitally by t...

Yaroslav has 6+ years of experience building desktop and client-server applications in C#, working with the WebBrowser control and its alternatives, a...

Vladislav talked to PASV about the C# language. From 2015 to 2018 he worked as a lead software engineer in the IT department at Belshina in Bobruisk,...

This webinar covers the basics of TypeScript for beginners. Heorhii Kuzmenko, a front-end developer, explains what TypeScript is and how it differs fr...

At PASV, Veronika explained what ML is, covered supervised learning and walked through an example of building an ML model.

Alexander Kalankhodzhaev is an architect, blockchain technical lead and developer. He works with Java, Rust, Scala and C#, and co-authored the go-linq...

This webinar introduces you to the basics of Python syntax.

In this video Danial talked to PASV about mobile app design — best practice for screenshots, icons, onboarding and mobile UX.

Nikita Vasilyev is a lead data scientist and a GeekBrains instructor teaching Python for ML. An expert in big data, DWH and ETL.

Yuri Danilov is a Senior Software Developer, currently at Sberbank. He told PASV about the most useful Linux commands, using bash for automation tasks...

Timofey Moskalev is co-founder of RIVAL. He told PASV everything about startups: testing whether an idea is viable, how to save a lot of money at the...

In this webinar we look at how to choose a direction: QA or React. It is a hotly debated question, and opinions differ widely.

Roman Romadin is a back-end developer with 10+ years of experience building high-load applications in Go and PHP. He told PASV where you can go in tec...

Anatoly explained to PASV students how long polling differs from webhooks and walked through the essentials of building a bot. Anatoly Kabanov is a de...

Nikita is a software engineer with more than six years building back-end (.NET) and front-end solutions and microservices. He mentors other developers...

Sergey has more than eight years in tech. He heads the B2G practice at Rostelecom IT, where his team is taking video monitoring of national exams and...

In this webinar we explain how learning JS and Python in a month actually works.

Sardor is a highly organized and detail-oriented software developer with more than five years of experience focusing on web and mobile app development...

Timur Koshel is an experienced, creative developer focused on product quality and shipping without bugs. At a PASV webinar he shared the secrets of a...

Maxim Kuznetsov talked to PASV about processes in Python. He has a research background in distributed computing, microservices and concurrency in Pyth...

In this webinar we talk about the pros and cons of the PASV school — where it is strong and where it is not.

On 19 September PASV hosted a webinar with guest speaker Evgeny Matveev on the tools of effective product analytics. Evgeny is a Product Manager who h...

Ilya talked to PASV students about Storybook. Ilya Pasyuk is a lead front-end developer at PropellerAds in St Petersburg. Over the last four years he...

Andrey talked about adopting a microservice approach built on NATS and Python, and about living without Docker and not regretting it. He is a develope...

Alexey ran a hands-on workshop for PASV students, showing them how to turn a web app into a desktop one with Electron.

Using the hotdog / not-hotdog example, we go through the accuracy metrics used in machine learning: why recall, precision and F1-score are so popular,...

At PASV (https://pasv.us/courses) Anton explained what a design system is and which problems it solves, covered containerising and systematising desig...

Over four years of professional work Alexander led the Athlete Readiness sports testing project at RusSportImport and took part in its rollout in St P...

At PASV (https://pasv.us) Artem covered the different kinds of data warehouse and the strengths and weaknesses of each. Artem Gogin is a Big Data Engi...

Ilya started out in tech as a system administrator. He is the founder and CTO of the startup Odus.ai, has led development teams and worked as a techni...

Anton Yarkov ran a webinar at PASV explaining that, understood and applied properly, Agile principles let a developer build up both hard and soft skil...

In this webinar Anton Goldobin covers the fundamentals of UX design and the mistakes people make most often. Anton is a UI/UX designer as well as a fr...

A recording of the PASV webinar of 26 September — "An introduction to business analysis". Guest speaker: Alexey Sereda, a business analyst building in...

On Saturday 26 September, at the PASV programming school, our guest speaker Sergey Tsvetkov walked everyone through the life cycle of a user request a...

Nikita Starichenko is a software engineer with more than six years of back-end experience. He told PASV how and why he moved from back-end to front-en...

In this interview our guest answers questions about interviews, the PASV school and the job hunt.

In this video Orkhan covers state management in React.js. He is a senior front-end developer with more than eight years of experience, working at Epic...

This video is about building Docker images. It will interest both people meeting Docker for the first time and those who have already worked with it....

In this video Maxim covers web scraping in Python. As a personal project he designed and built a distributed computing system for Python. His main int...

Egor Miron is a Software Engineer at Hypervsn and has worked as a developer since 2013. He started at a web studio building small projects for the loc...

In this video we discuss which states are best for a job search, where conditions are better and where it makes sense to move.

In this video we talk about your first job as a developer or tester. Many people wonder whether to take a contract or a full-time role — we go through...

Many people want to know, before they start, whether they will manage to pick up this new field. This video helps you work out whether studying to be...

In this video we look at the front-end developer profession — how long it takes someone with no experience to pick up this new field, and the concrete...

In this video we try to answer the question: how much do QA engineers and developers earn, who earns more, and why?

In this webinar Iliya covers the basics of Docker — the software used to automate deploying and managing applications.

In this video we talk about how to approach the choice of test automation tools.

In this video we talk about how to choose between QA and front-end and what to weigh up when deciding. We also touch on the job hunt after you finish...

In this video Mikhail Pudeyan explains how the warehouse ETL processes at one of the large mobile operators were moved from manual loads to an off-the...

In this video we look at the results of the students who do find jobs, and at the simple, practical steps that get you hired quickly.

Artur told PASV everything about test automation patterns. He has spent more than three years in banking, at Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, Tinkoff and Deutsche...

Alexander Zakharov gave PASV a guided tour of AWS. At 19 he left university in favour of teaching himself. Eighteen months later he landed a remote ro...

Valery Zanimansky talked to PASV about working with data in Photoshop and Figma, and where the latter comes out ahead. Valery is a Senior UI/UX design...

In this video we talk about Python as a first programming language.

This video explains how PASV helps people become developers and testers, and answers questions from viewers.

Today we build a simple game on the Scratch platform, where you can make games and animated cards out of visual blocks — with no code at all.

In this video we go through the catches in QA courses — the things worth knowing in advance, which can get in the way of finishing a course well if yo...

In this video we talk about what sets our QA Automation course apart, and about the things worth knowing before you enrol.

This video is the first introductory lesson on React JS. We cover component composition, JSX, export and import, how components behave, and answer a f...

This video answers a question we get constantly: how long does it take to train as a tester? To get there we first work out what testing is and what a...

In this video Maya Buryakina shares her experience of moving to the USA and gives advice on writing a resume for a job search in Silicon Valley.

In this video we go through the core Git operations: installing it, creating a project in WebStorm, making your first commits, connecting to GitHub an...

We work through the level 8 Codewars kata "Reverse List Order".

Solving the level 8 Codewars kata "SetAlarm".

We solve the Codewars kata "Mumbling". You are given a string and have to return another string, transformed according to a set of rules.

In this video we cover JavaScript's comparison operators, which you use whenever you need to compare variables or values.

In this video we talk about objects in JavaScript.

In this video Nikita, who landed a job at Google, shares his experience — including the technical interview and how to prepare for it.

This video is about resumes. It will be most useful to people taking our QA Automation Engineer course. We go through what to write when you have no e...

Working through the level 6 Codewars kata "The Office V — Find a Chair".

This video shows you how to solve the Codewars kata "The Office III — Broken Photocopier".

Working through the level 6 Codewars kata "Who likes it?".

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Sum of the first nth term of Series".

In this video we solve the Codewars kata "String average".

In this video we solve the Codewars kata "Flatten and sort an array".

Working through the Codewars kata "Reversing Words in a String".

In this video we work through a Codewars kata: build an array of the numbers in a given interval.

A level 8 Codewars kata in which you have to join an array into a sentence.

A Codewars kata in which you have to reverse every other word in a string.

Solving a Codewars kata in which you have to check whether a string is written in uppercase.

Solving the Codewars kata "Keep Hydrated".

Solving the Codewars kata "Rock Paper Scissors".

Working through the Codewars kata "Sum without highest and lowest number".

Working through the Codewars kata "To square(root) or not to square(root)".

A Codewars kata: find the maximum and minimum values in a list.

In this video we solve the Codewars kata "Convert a String to a Number".

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Reversed Words".

This video shows you how to solve the Codewars kata "Take the first N elements". You have to write a method that takes an array and a number and retur...

Working through the Codewars kata "Is he gonna survive?".

In this video we solve the Codewars kata "Sum The Strings".

More level 8 Codewars practice. In this kata you have to work out whether there will be enough space.

Codewars, a level 8 kata from the beginner series — "Clock".

Codewars, level 8, the isReallyNaN kata. NaN stands for "not a number".

More level 8 Codewars practice. A kata from the beginner series — school paperwork.

We solve the Codewars kata "No loops needed — you only need one". Given an array, you have to check whether it contains a particular value without usi...

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Filter out the geese".

Solving the Codewars kata "For Twins #1 Types" — not a hard one, since it is tagged Fundamentals.

Solving a fun Codewars kata: clean up after your dog.

Solving the level 8 Codewars kata "Can we divide it?".

Solving the Codewars kata "Find out whether the shape is a cube".

Solving the Codewars kata "Total amount of points".

More Codewars practice: sum the differences between consecutive pairs in an array sorted in descending order.

Solving the Codewars kata "Multiplication table for number".

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Get Nth Even Number".

In this video we work through the level 8 Codewars kata "Personalized Message".

This video shows you how to refresh an application's cache.

String.prototype.replace() is one of the more useful methods — you reach for it whenever you need to replace something inside a string. We work throug...

The next method is repeat(). You use it to repeat a string: you pass in a count and it returns a new string made up of that many copies.

This video shows how the server and the client work so that the two applications can talk to each other. There is also a third participant in the setu...

In this video we look at two more string methods, indexOf() and lastIndexOf(). indexOf exists on both arrays and strings — we cover how the two are al...

In this video we look at the includes() method — String.prototype.includes().

This video helps you work out whether you are ready to start interviewing. Useful to anyone, though it leans towards developers and testers in Silicon...

In this video we continue with HTML, JavaScript and DOM manipulation, building a calculator as the worked example.

This video is about writing a developer resume. The earlier you start, the better. We work through a real resume as the example.

In this video we look at another useful array method, forEach. It runs a function once for every element of the array.

In this video we talk about coding standards. ESLint is currently the leading tool for pointing out where you have made a mistake — a syntax one, at t...

In this video we look at how HTML and JavaScript work together.

In this video we build a project in HTML and JavaScript, and you learn how to connect JS to HTML. Git + GitHub.

Codewars, a level 8 kata: find the difference between the volumes of two cuboids.

This video works through a Codewars kata: convert a number into an array of its digits in reverse order. Given 123, we return [3, 2, 1].

Codewars, a level 8 kata: sleigh authentication.

In this video we solve a level 8 Codewars kata. The task: reverse a string.

This video works through a level 8 Codewars kata. We are given a number and have to return it spelled out as a word.

This video works through several level 8 Codewars katas — the entry difficulty. It will be useful to anyone who has just started programming and is wr...

This video covers the reduce array method. It applies a function to an accumulator and to each value of the array from left to right, reducing it to a...

This video covers the reverse array method. It changes the array in place, flipping it around: the first element becomes the last, and the last become...

This video covers map — a very useful and widely used array method. It builds a new array from the results of calling a function on every element.

This video covers splice, a very flexible array method. It takes several arguments and lets you change an array in place, removing and adding elements...

In this video we cover four array methods: push, pop, shift and unshift.

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Print a Rectangle Using Asterisks".

This video shows the solution to the Codewars kata "Find the missing element between two arrays".

This video works through a level 8 Codewars kata. Given an array, you return another array of two values: the count of the positive numbers, and the s...

The subject of this video is the Codewars kata "Convert to Binary".

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Simple multiplication": multiply the number by 8 if it is even, and by 9 if it is odd.

This video shows you how to solve the Codewars kata "Student's Final Grade" — return a student's final grade based on a set of conditions.

In this video we work through the Codewars kata "Reversed sequence".

This video covers a popular exercise — finding the arithmetic mean of an array.

This video shows you how to solve the kata: find the smallest integer in an array.

This video shows you how the .find() array method works.

This video takes a close look at the .filter() method.

This video walks through the methods for working with arrays.

This video covers the most widely used functions for working with strings.

This video shows you how to iterate over an array using a for loop as the example.

This video is about template strings — string literals that let you embed expressions inside them.

This video covers the ternary operator, which is often used as a shorthand form of the if statement.

In this video we look at strings and what you can do with them at the very start.

This video covers functions — what they are for and how they are built.

This video covers loops — a genuinely interesting topic. Loops let you repeat an action many times. We walk through the anatomy of a loop with clear e...

In this video we continue working with the IF statement.

This video is about the if, else if and else statements in JavaScript. You will learn what they are for and when to reach for each of them.

This video covers three of JavaScript's seven data types — String, Number and Boolean — and how they differ.

This video covers the first topic: variables and the basic operations on them.

An introductory video on learning JavaScript from scratch. The goal of this series is to work through the topics that most often trip up beginners.