Programming basics for beginners: Experience of the institute of informatics at Tallinn University of Technology

摘要

The present paper demonstrates a teaching approach in programming course for beginners: schoolchildren and schoolteachers. This course was developed at the Institute of Informatics at Tallinn University of Technology and it based on many years experience in teaching programming for non-IT first year students. The main aim of the course is to raise the motivation and keep the interest of the learners in programming field. Authors suggest some ways and methods to overcome complexity in the first stage in a coding.