Organization of Calculations and Work with Memory in the Educational Programming Language SYNHRO

The article is devoted to a number of decisions made in the project of the educational programming language Synchro, which is being developed at the Laboratory of Information Systems of the A.P. Ershov IIS SB RAS, designed to familiarize with the basic phenomena of the interaction of processes and control of calculations over shared memory. The focus is on the functional programming paradigm. The language is aimed at schoolchildren of primary and secondary grades, as well as junior students and non-professionals. During training, the experience of operating with toy robots moving on a checkered board is used. The article is of interest to everyone who is interested in the problems of modern computer science, programming and information technology, especially the problems of parallel computing on supercomputers and distributed systems, and in general the use of multiprocessor systems.