Ivan Takarlikov

When I came to mkdev I didn’t know which mentor to choose, since I already had a little experience in ruby on rails. But after reading about each brief "description" chose Ivan. Once they found a common language with Ivan, and it’s easy to communicate with him. Even when something is difficult or difficult, it’s not scary to write what you don’t understand, as he will direct him in the right direction, or say what to read, or how to do something, but you do all the work yourself. Sometimes he asks leading questions, which when you answer even to yourself, you understand that this should not be in the code and can be done differently. I recommend Ivan as a connoisseur of his craft and a very good mentor!

Ivan is a responsive and attentive mentor, with a sense of humor, which is important. Makes an individual training plan, depending on the goals. Of course you have to google a lot, read the documentation in English, without this in any way. In general, the belief in yourself and confident movement to the goal, and the result will not take long to wait! Good luck to all and patience!

Ivan will make for you the program that is required for your tasks. He taught the algorithm to search for independent solutions, helped with leading questions when I came to a dead end. Teacher is a vocation, and learning to program is something more, since it is necessary to explain something difficult in simple language. And Ivan perfectly copes with this task, for which he is very grateful. And thanks to the creator of mkdev for a wonderful project.

Having come to mkdev, I was set up to work independently, but with the support of a mentor when it is really necessary. With Vanya, this very simple process of interaction turned out to be a little more interesting than I imagined. If there was a problem that included hitting my head with a table, then I would definitely be given either a tool that would help solve it. Or a little advice. But not a complete analysis of the problem, with moral compensation. This is where my height began, for which I am grateful. Although, as a last resort, Vanya was ready to join the detailed study of the problem. He is generally concerned about the result. Even after the end of the subscription, he continued with me to complete the task. Not everyone will do that. Plus, sometimes he shared his personal experience and provided support when something did not work out for a long time. Or it turned out, but with difficulty. She inspired to move on. I will not paint a lot. I enjoyed learning from him. And if I decide to continue, I will return to Van again.

I agree with the other students: it is very easy to communicate with Ivan. He quickly makes a code-review (in English), always reveals such places where you are too lazy and didn’t finish something or didn’t do it quite well (I often had this when writing tests). The mentor has drawn up a development program for me consisting of 3 stages. And I'm going to follow this program in the near future to become Junior Rails Developer. mkdev - the project is definitely awesome, thanks to the guys for the work!

I passed the first course with Ivan and started the second (for adults), for a total of 2 months at the moment, and continue to study. Although I am not a very capable student, Ivan really managed to explain difficult moments very clearly and simply. The mentor is very meticulous about the student's independent search for mistakes - although sometimes I really wanted to just get an answer and move on, Ivan "forced" to finish everything on his own and never informed directly how to do it - he pushed in the right direction. Thanks to this approach, spending hours on googling for hours, you really learn to solve problems yourself - after all, in the real world there will be no mentor who will tell you what to do. I also liked that it is possible to communicate very directly and simply with Ivan - the absence of any barriers in communication helps to learn. When I first came to the hospital, with the first mentor it was sometimes difficult for me to ask a question, to turn once again - it seemed that I was asking too stupid questions and so on. I didn’t have such a thing with Ivan :) And in organizational matters, we too quickly managed to reach agreement, to decide on working days / weekends and code review time. Ivan always answered promptly, and if he could not - he informed about it when he answered. As a result, I am now undergoing an internship as a rails developer in a small company and continue to study with Ivan, since there are still a lot of questions. Thanks to him for his professionalism and responsiveness!

I finished the first quest with Ivan. It is easy to communicate with Ivan, he answers promptly. Although I tried to do the tasks myself, sometimes there were problems that could not be solved, then a mentor came to the rescue. Solutions sought jointly. I recommend Ivan as a good mentor! Advice for people who want to study with a mentor on mkdev: learn to ask questions, perhaps not related to the course, about the profession, programming. A mentor is a busy person who will not begin to tell, so pull it yourself. Successes to all!

On mkdev all mentors are good. I tried several. Every mentor will teach you new knowledge in Ruby on Rails. Many thanks to Ivan for teaching me to debug the code using jazz_fingers. He put me on JS in the middle of training, although at the rate he only appears at the end. If you are blunted and stackflowflow lookups don't help you, he will always get into your problem and prompt you. Dear future or current developers of front, back-end and mobile, etc. mentoring is the most effective learning at the moment. I did not know anything about web development, but I was always wondering how and what works. In addition, I do not want to sit in the office all my life, I have ideas that I want to embody by myself. And when they begin to generate income, I will leave the office and will work for myself. So I went to study at mkdev. After 3 months, I was able to make simple websites with authorization through the social network and data storage on Amazon servers. At the same time I worked during the day, in the evening and at the weekend I studied. Why did I choose mkdev compared to others (schools, courses, etc.)? 1) on mkdev real tasks, solutions for which you can immediately use in your projects. You will not do a type of TODO sheet, or play the gallows as in some schools. You will immediately immerse yourself in the specific tasks that are needed in the real world (bootstrap, authorization, work with the database, etc.) 2) you can pay for weeks or months with mkdev. This is very convenient. It is difficult for me to immediately pull out 50 000 r for a full course of study, as in other schools. 3) Pay for school, urges you to do everything faster and not scoring for study. Do you still think ?! Do not waste your time, study hard, if you would know that there is such a format, I would start even earlier. Thanks to all!

Since MKDEV reformatted training from passing courses to specialization, and so coincided that my plan was to study fullstack web development on Rais, Ivan Takarlikov approached me as a mentor 100%. Ivan immediately suggested that I study new technologies and apply them in my project. During my studies with Ivan, I have never regretted my choice. Professional of the business, intelligent, responsible and attentive tutor. His answers to questions and explanations of obscure topics at a very high level, intelligible, understandable - take and do. In addition to web development technologies, it instils a culture of teamwork, and the work on my project is organized in TaskTracker. Another thing that struck and pleasantly surprised was the review code in English, for me it turned out to be important too, the ability to express one's thoughts in English. I hope Ivan will help me to become a high-class specialist, who he himself is. I highly recommend learning from Ivan Takarlikov, he will open for you new facets of web development skills. I continue to learn from this wonderful man, my mentor, Ivan Takarlikov!