Prostředí pro výuku programování prostřednictvím návrhu virtuálních robotů

The main goal of this thesis is to analyse the current body of knowledge and to implement a new didactic tool based on the findings. The tool is meant to be a software educational environment for courses of programming in Python, supporting the education of students by robots' programs development. First, author made a research of existing environments historically used as a supporting tools for learning of programming across various languages and paradigms. The goal of this phase was to recognize some of the key attributes of those environments in terms of their categorization and likelihood, description of their main features and to specify which attributes should the implemented environment have, focusing on ability to provide modern, effective and entertaining way of learning of programming. Following these finidings and formulated key requirements, author implemented a tool focused on teaching of Python programming language. It provides the means for developing the robots' programs that can be tested on various levels like in terms of the success rate or how much the student's solution meets the requirements, using this extensible environment. In the last phase, model assignments were designed to provide a full ability of the tool to be used in introductional courses of Python programming and to support the explanation of theoretical aspects of the language.