Teaching exploration and reform of program design course for digital media art students

As a novel cross-subject, digital media art is the combination of technology and art. The program design course is an important part of computer teaching course system. Considering the characteristics of the major and knowledge of the students, The Basic Course of Animation Programming is chosen as an introductory programming course. This paper proposes the reform of practicing on the content of course and teaching method and it also explores the measures combining teaching and ability training so as to raise the students´ interest in learning and improve their programming knowledge and methods of quick understanding and application.