Algorithmics and programming — the fundamental core and intellectual content of an informatics course in basic school

Abstract

The Federal State Educational Standard for Basic General Education and the Federal Work Program for Basic General Education define many aspects of the "Algorithms and programming" section in secondary school. The goals of the standard are to ensure students master algorithmic thinking and its language and gain experience implementing algorithms in software. An approach to learning basic algorithmic constructs is defined by developing algorithms for controlling executors — moving objects visually represented on a computer screen. A list of approximately 20 non-numeric and numerical algorithms is defined, which students must be able to implement in one of six programming languages, also explicitly listed. The number of class hours allocated to mastering the "Algorithms and programming" section in grades 8 and 9 is specified. Despite all the efforts of the regulator to detail the content and methodology of studying the "Algorithms and programming" section and to increase the proportion of problems devoted to this section in the State Final Examination for grade 9, algorithms and programming are currently not mastered sufficiently thoroughly and deeply by secondary school graduates. The article proposes an approach to improving the situation through the systematic use of domestic scientific, methodological and technological developments — the Algorithmic language and programming environment "KuMir".