Research and Reformation of Online Practice Oriented Teaching in Programming Foundation Course

Programming foundation is a course with very strong practicality. In order to promote students´ programming practice ability, this article presents a new teaching idea, online practice oriented teaching. This teaching idea emphasizes particularly on impartment of elementary thoughts and methods in programming, cultivating students´ practical ability through programming contest, online practice, and course project, etc. Based on this teaching idea, this article redesigns the main teaching contents of the course, including theoretic and practical teaching. Lastly, this article summarizes some effective teaching methods.