ABOUT THE RELEVANCE OF IMPROVEMENT OF THE METHOD OF TEACHING PROGRAMMING OF BACHELORS OF EDUCATION PROFILE "INFORMATICS"

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need to improve the methodology of teaching programming to bachelors of education in the "Informatics" profile. To achieve this goal, the analysis of scientific literature is carried out, and research on the methodology of teaching programming is considered. Difficulties were identified that determined a number of reasons that affect the quality of results of learning programming languages in a pedagogical University. One of the reasons is that there is no computer science exam in the list of entrance tests in pedagogical universities. Accordingly, there is a low motivation of school graduates to study programming languages, and therefore a low level of algorithmic culture and system thinking in the majority of students enrolled in the educational program for training bachelors of education in the "Informatics" profile. In order to substantiate the relevance of these problems on the basis of the Pavlodar state pedagogical University among the 1st year students of the specialty "Informatics", a ascertaining study was conducted, including a questionnaire and entrance testing. The results of this study confirm the need to improve the methodology of teaching programming in a pedagogical University. The article analyzes scientific research on the methodology of teaching programming to schoolchildren and students, studies the research that reveals the didactic potential of a personalized approach to learning, and concludes that it is necessary to develop such a teaching methodology that will be based on the idea of integrating existing methods and personalized educational requests of bachelors; the main directions of improving the methodology of teaching programming to future computer science teachers are defined.