One of the tips for lecturers is to connect with the audience by asking questions. As a student, I found myself in situations where I gave a suitable answer, and the instructor would say “wrong” and wait for other answers. Back then I thought: “What an asshole, I answered correctly …

It was late evening in the early ’90s. My dad, as usual, was sitting in the corner of the room at the table that served as his workshop, and by the light of a desk lamp he was soldering a board. I peered over his shoulder and got interested: the …

Few people know that Facebook is a service for feeding the masses shit with a shovel. The shovel is so big that there is enough for everyone, and so there is only one. You have only the illusion of content personalization based on your likes and friends. But in reality …

There’s a lot a university doesn’t teach. For example, it doesn’t teach your native Russian. Over the years I worked as an instructor, hundreds of student papers passed before my eyes: reports, abstracts, term papers, theses. Usually I start scribbling comments in the very first paragraph and …

We continue the topic of the degradation of domestic education and society as a whole, raised in the post How to Become a Certified Moron for 2700 UAH.

An unknown woman wrote to me with an offer to start writing student papers to order: term papers, essays, theses.

I went …

Four years ago, on May 8, 2011, I woke up early in the morning and realized that I would never drink alcohol again in my life. The day before, we had celebrated my best friend’s birthday (hi, Kolya!) with vodka, shashlik, games, a guitar, and a lake. There had …

University doesn’t teach you to be successful in life. Success can be understood in different ways; let’s put the following into it: a good job, well-being, a social role in life, the ability to set high goals and achieve them (the kind of people for whom nothing is …

I’m the kind of person who watches ads (and they work on me) and reads spam.

Recently an email landed in my inbox offering to order a diploma in the humanities for just 2,700 UAH ($115). Humanities people have it better here than techies: according to students, an …

Students are curious:

Which specialty/department should I write my application for in the second year?

Only SCS. Only APVT.

Speaking as a department lecturer, I’ll answer for myself: my courses “Programming Cloud Technology Services” (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) and “Programming Mobile Platforms” (Apple iPhone) are taken …

This spring, for the fourth time already (jeez, how time flies), I’ll be teaching two courses at KhNURE:

1. Mobile Platform Programming.
2. Cloud Computing, Systems, and Networks.

In the first one we discuss the Objective-C language, Foundation, Cocoa Touch, interfaces, working with the network, databases, testing. 28 hours of lectures …