The technique of student's familiarization with the programming environment (on the example of NetBeans)

In the State standard of secondary education of informatics one of the basics tasks of informatics as an educational discipline is defined as forming the student’s skills to develop algorithms for solving the applied tasks with the use of modern tools of information technologies. The article deals with the technology of making the students’ familiar with the programming environment NetBeans in the process of teaching programming in Java language. Student’s familiarization with the programming environment is the one of the most important stages in their learning to develop programs on Java language. NetBeans environment has advantages among other programming environments and can be recommended to be applied at school. Here are the basic stages of the familiarization with the programming environment: learning the general characteristics of the programming environment, starting the programming environment with the using of Start menu button and the icon on the desktop, learning the menu of the programme and windows Project, Navigator, Code, Output, Properties; teaching how to operate with projects in the programming environment NetBeans; making the project following the model; inputting the code and saving up the programme; starting up a programme for implementation; error correction and saving up. Two types of instructions are recommended: step by step (for weaker students) and reference (for average and strong students). The article contains the examples of reference and step by step instructions to the practical work dealing with the familiarization with the programming environment NetBeans. It has been concluded that the usage or reference instructions will be more effective for the development in students independence and intellectual skills. The research has prospects to the further development of the methodical system of teaching programming in Java language to students of secondary and high school, working out the system of the programming tasks that will be take into account the specifics of Java language