Articles in category 26

The Biggest Stupidity in Domestic Retail and Service

The biggest stupidity in domestic retail and service is that everything starts working at 10:00. A couple of stores that managed to overcome themselves, step outside the box, do some work on themselves — they open at 9:00. But not a single store or service will open at 8 …

School Starts December 2, 2016

Starting December 2, I’ll give 11 lectures on advanced iOS development topics. Admission is free for students and staff of Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. Space is limited; registration is required.

Information and registration: http://mass.education

The shortcoming of existing programming courses for the Apple iOS operating …

Students Don’t Understand the Language

As part of the student success trainings, I’m studying the reasons why students do poorly in their studies. One such reason, which isn’t obvious and which students don’t talk about, is that students don’t understand the language.

I’m not talking about Russian, which all our …

A New Profession: Student Success Coach

Ladies and gentlemen, you are witnessing a great discovery in education. Yesterday I invented a new profession, became the first practicing professional in this profession, and today found my first client. This profession is student success coach. My last name will be written into pedagogy textbooks on the same page …

Books About Computers and Programming for Kids

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 …

On Having One’s Own Opinion

For some reason, many people mistakenly think they have their own opinion about what’s going on. Though it’s unclear where a person who watches nothing but TV could get an opinion of their own, one different from the opinion on TV.

It may, of course, seem that the …

Postcard Collection

The rules are very simple. You have to come to any city. Buy stamps and a postcard with an image of that city. On the back, write under what circumstances you ended up in that city. Then put down your home address and drop the postcard in a mailbox.

Axiom …

Ukrainian Patriots in Action

Anna Herman reported on the workaday life of Ukrainian patriots:

“Three very nice women came to see me from Lviv. And they said, Ms. Anna, let’s talk it over, what are we going to do, since a very good Lviv woman, a patriot, has been arrested, and we need …