Teaching Programming to Schoolchildren in Gomel (Belarus)

The author has been teaching programming to Gomel schoolchildren for more than four decades. For the last twenty-five years, training has been focused primarily on preparing for programming competitions from school to international competitions (IOI). Since 1997, 15 students of the author have won a total of 26 medals at IOI 1997 - 2023. The article contains a description of the teaching methods and tools used by the author. An essential technical basis for training is the instrumental distance learning system DL.GSU.BY, was created and developed under the leadership of the author from 1999 to the present time.