Katyetova Aliya - a PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, and has a master's degree in Informatics (Pavlodar State Pedagogical University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, 2007). She is the author of scientific and methodological papers on the informatization of education, distance learning, and students’ development; of the methodical manual “Fundamentals of Algorithmization and Programming”. She did a research internship at Reading University, UK (2013). She is currently a Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship holder (2021-2025, Hungary) and a two-time winner of the doctoral fellowships (2022-2023, 2023-2024, Hungary). She teaches “Introduction to Computational Thinking” and “Learning Methodology” courses at ELTE. Her current research interests include student development, didactics, computer science teaching methodology, and developing digital literacy in elementary school children.