Seizing the big and freeing the small in program design teaching

Abstract

At present, the teaching of program design stays in the language level, and the student lacks the programming thinking and the ability of program designing. After the analysis of the core tasks of the developing course, the strategy of seizing the big and freeing the small is proposed. This strategy advocates restructuring major enterprises and relaxing control over small ones in the teaching of program design, its aim is to cultivate students with the ability of using language, the programming thinking and the idea of software development, to preserve the quality of the core teaching task, and to improve the students' comprehensive quality and the curriculum level. The results of my school practice show that the strategy of seizing the big and freeing the small can effectively improve the teaching effectiveness and enhance the students' skills of using language and program development. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg.