Teaching computer studies in the educational online communities of the schoolchildren with the use of the chat bots

The article deals with the issues of the programming training of the students in the educational online communities. There are discussed the approaches to the comprehension of the term “educational online community” and the implementation of the community at the web platform. There is substantiated the potential of the programming training with the use of the elements of the artificial intelligence - the chat bots as the specialized programs - the conversation participants. The authors consider the Internet resources for the creation of the chat bots.