Web Resource for Teaching the Basics of Relational Databases

The article presents an educational web resource developed by teachers and students of Vologda State University. It is used to teach IT students the skills of developing queries to a relational database and writing program code stored in the database. As main part of the web resource, there is an extensive bank of training tasks designed for independent solution by students, and a system for automatic checking students’ solutions. To justify the necessity of resource development, the article presents an analytical review of existing online database training resources. Structural and algorithmic decisions accepted at realization of automatic checking of students’ solutions in the developed resource are considered. The bank of training tasks on the course “Databases” is briefly presented. The experience of using the web resource in the educational process for effective organization of students’ independent work is analyzed.