Modern information technology / software

Ph.D. Salykova OS, undergraduate Podgornov R.
Kostanay State University named A.Baitursynov
To the query of the interactive applications’ development.

Computer technology is closely connected with modern educational technologies. Becoming popular interactive educational computer systems give students opportunities to familiarize with material in a short time and develop their skills and abilities. Interactive computer technology can be divided into hardware and software. The hardware includes interactive whiteboards, projectors’ systems which require additional software and configurations. Interactive applications (programs) have a special feature, they are not in need of some additional hardware - they can be described as mobile applications.

In the article "Using interactive technologies in the educational process» O.A. Polyakova describes the relevance and benefits of using hardware interactive systems. Evident benefits and advantage of using software in progressive approaches in the education sphere are described in some papers of major scientists - Titov S.V., Epov A.A., Skoda I.A. Martirosova T.M. All these investigations show benefits of planning systems or already existing hardware solutions. But despite of these mentioned advantages there are many other unsolved troubles in the aspect of creation software or hardware programs.

The problem of the using of interactive applications in the educational process is primarily due to the lack of the applications themselves, because different school subjects demand the development of individual software products in each subject area. According to this fact a specialist who has knowledge in a narrow field is not able to develop an interactive application independently.

The world market of software tools provides great opportunities for the creation of training software, but it’s required an appropriate level of knowledge of developer in order to work with the most part of the software solutions. For most of them it’s a high barrier to entry to the development. Many software solutions which do not need deep knowledge in programming have too high prices. These factors are considered as the main problems in promoting interactive computer technologies in the educational process.

The necessity of paying attention to the investigation of this problem is caused by several factors. First, the state educational standard of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 14, 2008 demands introducing new educational technologies and limits the academic load on students. Second, the development of distance learning predictably involves extensive using of computer technologies, where the lack of specialists becomes a narrow problem in the progress of educational systems.
Need of specialists can be solved by reducing the threshold of entrance into the development and simplifying the development tools as ordinary and complex interactive educational systems. In this context, the purpose of this work is to study the development of tools for interactive applications. It’s important to follow the empirical way and also with the help of system analysis to make a set of tools that allows even a novice specialist to create an interactive application.