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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF43-405</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1993-43-405</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Distance teaching of programming and possibilities of e-mail<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>✩</sup></xref></article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Dagys</surname><given-names>Viktoras</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Klupšaitė</surname><given-names>Audronė</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Programming Methodology Department, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, 2600 Vilnius, Akademijos St. 4, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><author-notes><fn id="fn1"><label><sup>✩</sup></label><p>The work was supported by UNESCO under contract CII 408018.2.</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1993</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>3-4</issue><fpage>303</fpage><lpage>311</lpage><abstract><p>A classification of teaching forms is introduced. One-to-many (group) distance teaching forms are discussed with respect to the means, which are used in the programming teaching process. The role and the possibilities of electronic mail in this process is discussed. The experience of Lithuanian Young Programmers' School by Correspondence is referred to.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>teaching forms</kwd><kwd>one-to-many distance teaching</kwd><kwd>e-mail</kwd><kwd>teaching of programming</kwd><kwd>programming school by correspondence</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>