Communicative approach to teaching programming

Till contemporary period there have been many different theoretical ways, which deal with the content and quality of teaching. Their common aim is to consider improving the quality of teaching to students and also pedagogues. Communication approach to teaching (further CAT) is based on the optimization of the amount and retention of knowledge and the character of subject matter achieved by means of improvement of students' motivation and applying the utilization of the knowledge in a real context. The purpose of this article is to suggest applying the CAT method mainly used during teaching foreign languages in teaching programming by means of Pascal programming language. It is recommended that the reader of this article attempts to apply the presented pieces of knowledge in teaching programming languages when reading the following chapter. Then, he (she) will be able to understand the following chapters better.

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