DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ON THE BASIS OF SOLUTION ALGORITHMS DRAFTING

Abstract

The article raises a question of the need of computational thinking development during the study of students at a university. Specific methods and components of computational thinking are highlighted and described in the article. It also points out the need to include the section “Algorithmization” into the computer science course from the very beginning of study. There are many options for the development of algorithmic thinking as an integral part of computational thinking. The authors of the article have chosen to use their own product – a workbook, which allows to obtain theoretical information about the process of constructing algorithms in the following sequence: setting a problem, describing data, building a mathematical model, drawing up a block diagram of a solution algorithm and algorithm testing on control values. This workbook is used in real pedagogical practice at Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky. To identify the effectiveness of the product implementation, the results of programming training of university students before and after its implementation are analyzed.