Аннотация:The article presents the criteria and levels of formation of intellectual creativity of students in the “Applied Informatics” field of training. The significance of the study lies in the verification of the thesis that it is advisable to provide scientific and methodological support for the implementation of pedagogical conditions for the effective development of intellectual creativity of future IT specialists. The proposed conditions are focused on ensuring the purposeful mastery of systemic knowledge, skills, and competence for working with various IT technologies in the process of learning programming languages.