Improve critical thinking skills for students of FTT Yambol

Critical thinking is an important skill, especially in the digital century, when a huge amount of information bomb the young, every day, through the web net. The aim of the paper is to describe and introduce the main qualities of critical thinking. We present also how the abilities of well -developed VLE help for the successful growth of students. The good practices that we use to boost critical thinking are discussed. We try to develop critical thinking and logical reasoning skills. These are our main goals in teaching programming. Programming is a complex process where the programmer very often uses most of their time to planning the individual pieces that will come together to make the system works. In the paper, we analyze different strategies that we apply to improve critical thinking: training strategies; strategies for ongoing knowledge testing; evaluation strategies. Each of these aims to develop critical thinking along with mastering programming languages. Implemented strategies in programming training produce positive results, allowing students to grow professionally.