Martin Vozar

The study focuses on the identification of relationships and/or rules between computational thinking (CT) concepts among the undergraduate students of Applied Informatics due to their attitudes towards mathematics. We analyze three CT concepts - decomposition, pattern recognition, and algorithmic thinking. We assume that students who have a closer relationship with mathematics, a positive attitude towards mathematics, have better developed CT. We conducted the experiment during the 2022/2023 academic year on the Information Coding and Displaying subject. The results indicate that those students who have no relationship to mathematics, negative attitude towards mathematics, have no problem with decomposition and pattern recognition, but without significant algorithmic thinking. On the other hand, students who have a close relationship with mathematics are also able to decompose or recognize patterns, but moreover they have shown algorithmic thinking. The contribution of the study comprises the identification of relationships and/or patterns of computational thinking concepts among students who have a relationship to mathematics, who cannot assess their relationship to mathematics, as well as among students who have no relationship to mathematics. Our results indicate a different occurrence of computational thinking concepts as well as links and/or relationships between them.

In this paper, the authors focus on the using of web applications in informatics education. Applications are part of a new model of learning in Discrete Mathematics course in the study program in Applied Informatics. The knowledge that students acquire in the subject are key. Learning and acquiring new knowledge is one of the priority skills for personal development of every person and thereby directly affecting the other direction. In teaching, we should lay stress on that students not only memorized knowledge but understand them and then they would easily be able to use in practice.

The article deals with the problems of heat transfer through solids. The calculation of the thermal resistance of the system consisting of several layers of solid materials having different thermal resistances on the intensive calculations and the time. In the first part we law of calorimetry equation. On this basis, we can build a theory of one-dimensional and multi-dimensional differential equation of thermal diffusion. The derived equations are then used to simulate the heat transfer in building applications. We had to adjust the thermal diffusion equation in such a shape that it can be addressed by using PDE toolbox.

In this paper, the authors focus on the problems of processing and using web applications in education. Applications are part of a new model of learning in Discrete Mathematics course in the study program in Applied Informatics. The knowledge that students acquire in the subject is key. Learning and acquiring new knowledge is one of the priority skills for personal development of every person and thereby directly affecting their other direction. In teaching, we should put stress on that students not only memorize knowledge but understand it so that they would be easily able to use it in practice.

The use of multimedia in the educational process is currently considered almost for granted. Most universities and also many secondary schools have created to study e-learning courses, in which are incorporated multimedia elements. Not always and not for each school subject are important elements of multimedia. In this article we will discuss the use of multimedia elements in teaching Discrete Mathematics in the Department of Computer Science Faculty of Natural Sciences in Nitra. During the two years we have carried out an experiment in which students completed a pretest and two post-test aimed at measure their knowledge of the issue. Embodiments and details of the course experiment as well as on the results obtained we write later in this article.

Between 2010-2012 the authors of Article actively involved in Innovative education center project (ESF 2010-2012), which the main objective was to upgrade the teaching of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, adaptation to the needs of academic quality improvement and human resource skills development. The project was implemented at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (FPV), Constantine the Philosopher University (UKF) in Nitra and financially supported by the European Social Fund (ESF). Under the project was created considerable amount of study materials that have been implemented in dozens of e-learning courses completed in the LMS system to support education and also for the needs of distance learning. Each of the Co-project was tasked to develop materials for courses that teach. Created courses are deployed for the second year in teaching and so we had a possibility of undertaking an experiment, we tested students' knowledge. Descriptions of individual courses and also characteristics and results of the experiment are described in the following chapters contribution.