Virtual laboratory practicum on the «Databases» discipline

Abstract

The article presents the results of the stages of development of a virtual laboratory practicum on the «Databases» discipline, which can be used by students of the «Information technology» field of knowledge as additional tools of independent educational activity and means of acquiring professional competencies. The article briefly describes the functional and program requirements for a virtual laboratory practicum. In the form of a mathematical model, the functional and object models of the process of using a learning toolkit by students are described. The structure of the database and the features of the graphic web-interface, allowing to implement the specified functionality, are described. The presented virtual practicum, in contrast to the existing ones, allows the student to hone the skill of writing various SQL-queries.