Informatics Curriculum and Programming Competitions: Azerbaijani Experience

To what extent does the content of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), as well as other programming competitions in which students participate, correspond to the curriculum of secondary school informatics? In other words, can a student who fully mastered the curriculum of informatics taught in secondary school succeed in programming competitions? This article reviews the history of informatics and Informatics Olympiads in Azerbaijan, how the curriculum of the subject has changed from 1985 to the present, and in particular, whether the space allocated to programming in these updates is sufficient. How to eliminate the existing inconsistency in the new curriculum is explained using the example of specific standards. Keywords: informatics curriculum, programming competitions, International Olympiads in Informatics, IOI.