Education reform on software programming courses for non-IT-majoring undergraduates

Author

Shaobing Song ; Ge Yu

Author_Institution

Hangzhou Inst. of Service Eng., Hangzhou Normal Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

715

Lastpage

719

Abstract

Software programming skills becomes more and more important in the information times for up-to date students. The article describes the essential thoughts and discusses the basic practices in education reform on software programming courses for non-IT-majoring undergraduates. Main concerns include project-driven thinking, textbook revising, teaching model reforming, student demand orientating, initiative arousing, interests compelling, knowledge transferring, project-driven case studying, adversity environment teaching, teaching procedure designing and team work conducting. And also analyzes the effects of the reform practices.

Keywords

computer science education; design; educational courses; knowledge management; programming; teaching; adversity environment teaching; education reform; initiative arousing; interests compelling; knowledge transferring; non-IT-majoring undergraduates; project-driven case studying; project-driven thinking; software programming courses; software programming skills; student demand orientating; teaching model reforming; teaching procedure designing; team work conducting; textbook revising; Application software; Computers; Educational institutions; Programming profession; Adversity environment education; Education reform; Project-driven case study; Software programming courses; non-IT-majoring undergraduates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2011 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9717-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSE.2011.6028737

Filename

6028737