Interest-driven and innovation-oriented practice for programming course

In order to maximize the motivation of students in the programming practice, this paper offers an analysis on the core factors of practice case motivating students put in effort in programming practice, namely, "interest", "usability", and "hierarchy". Furthermore, we present typical practice cases which are carefully designed according to the motivating factors and give a description on the implementation and experience of our programming practice course at Harbin Institute of Technology. The designed programming practice can not only train the students´ practical programming skills but also enhance their self-regulated learning skills, creativity and self-efficacy.