C Programming Fundamentals

The article presents the structure, content and results of approbation of the C++ programming course developed for the 10th grade students of physics and mathematics profile and implemented as part of the academic subject “Informatics”. The aim of the course is to develop in the student not only knowledge and skills in programming, but also his algorithmic culture and programming culture as important qualities of a potential IT-specialist. This is facilitated by special control of educational process by the teacher, which consists in monitoring the activities of students in writing programs and timely correction of this activity. The assessment of the level of development of student algorithmic culture and programming culture relative to the basic level of their formation (when mastering the basics of algorithmization and programming in the 9th grade) was carried out on the basis of a number of criteria presented in the article. The results of approbation showed that the specially organized teacher activity makes it possible to increase the level of algorithmic culture and programming culture of high school students when studying the basics of programming in C++.

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INFORMATION STRUCTURING FOR SOLVING TASKS IN SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENT

Informatics and Education ◽

10.32517/0234-0453-2019-34-2-42-46 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 42-46

Author(s):

A. A. Nedbaylov

Keyword(s):

Programming Languages ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Electronic Information ◽

User Friendliness ◽

Software Environment ◽

C Programming ◽

Source Data ◽

Training Courses ◽

Engineering Psychology ◽

Different Levels

The calculations required in project activities for engineering students are commonly performed in electronic spreadsheets. Practice has shown that utilizing those calculations could prove to be quite difficult for students of other fields. One of the causes for such situation (as well as partly for problems observed during Java and C programming languages courses) lies in the lack of a streamlined distribution structure for both the source data and the end results. A solution could be found in utilizing a shared approach for information structuring in spreadsheet and software environment, called “the Book Method”, which takes into account the engineering psychology issues regarding the user friendliness of working with electronic information. This method can be applied at different levels in academic institutions and at teacher training courses.

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