Articles tagged with basic training

How Do You Solve an Impossible Problem?

I’ve had cases like this in my practice: you ask a programmer to make some feature, and he answers, “It’s impossible to make it.” I ask, “Why?” and he replies, “I read such-and-such documentation, looked at such-and-such example, tried doing it this way and that way, and realized …

Vacation Out of the Blue

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It all started last Friday, when friends sent me links to the news. The news said that a decision had been made to close universities for three weeks for quarantine.

I immediately wanted to get some kind of official information from our administration. Interestingly, on the front pages of four …

What Is Time Management Really About?

Following up on our conversation about time management, I want to share an interesting interview with Yervant Zorian — one of the leaders of the CAD industry:

“There are clearly always many more things to do than time allows. So if you have two or three times more to do than …

On Nine-Finger Touch Typing

Students have to type texts on a keyboard very often. That includes preparing reports, term papers, lab assignments, typing program source code, as well as using email and communicating in blogs, forums, and chats. From personal interaction with this contingent, I know that typing any even slightly complex text is …

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 …