NMPTE: network multimedia programming training environment

Conventional programming teaching/learning is rather ineffective and time consuming. We need a more effective and active programming training environment to catch the fast pace of the new technology´s progress. In order to create an efficient multimedia programming training environment, we divide goals of programming learning into 4 stages. Each stage emphasizes a different kind of programming technique training. The existing MPTE is such a programming training environment whose goals fall into the first stage, namely, the entry-level programmer. In order to efficiently train an entry-level programmer to become a skilled one, we have designed a new training environment called NMPTE, through which we hope that skilled programmers can effectively and massively be produced. The salient features of this system are that: it is based on the learner-centered model, and the instructor will be able to “actively” involve in the learner´s learning process; and the learners´ error programs are valuable training resources, they will be collected by the system and added to course content