Articles by Volodymyr Obrizan

Time Management Basics for a Freshman

Freshmen sometimes ask: “How do you keep up at the university? You have to go to all the classes, do labs, write papers, do homework”... Indeed, the first year of university is a big step, one that not every high school graduate gets to take.

Let’s look at the …

Working Students

If a student is earning money but at the same time doesn’t show up at the university, then he doesn’t need higher education. He can safely switch to correspondence study or just take his documents and leave altogether. There can be no mercy for such people during exams …

Simple Static Work Distribution in a Multithreaded Program

With this article we are starting a series of publications, “Parallel Programming for the Little Ones.” The project’s expected audience: schoolchildren, as well as students who are beginning to study parallel programming.

The advantage of a multithreaded application over a sequential one is that several threads do the same …

Funny Situations

On April first I started teaching the course "Introduction to Software Performance Optimization" for third-year SCS students. For the introductory lecture I decided not to use slides and a projector, and just printed out a short lecture outline for myself. In class I asked the students whether it was more …