Interactive Tasks in Teaching Programming as a Toolkit for a Computer Science Teacher

The article discusses the features of the use of interactive tasks in the computer science course of primary and secondary schools in the framework of the study of the topic “Programming and Algorithmization” on the example of the author’s set of interactive tasks “PyBook” for teaching programming in the Python language. This kit contains both test assignments of various types and practical assignments for writing a program. In addition, the paper presents the possibilities of using interactive simulators as one of the classes of interactive tasks on the example of the interactive simulator “Division completely and by remainder”. At the same time, the possibilities of using the presented simulator in training and test modes are considered in detail. In addition, the article identifies further areas of research in the use of interactive tasks in the framework of teaching programming in the computer science course of primary and secondary schools.

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