Research on University Computer Foundation Teaching based on Computational Thinking

As the rapid development of information society, people daily work and study rely on computer network as a platform environments, only familiar with computer operation skills which is not competent to meet the needs of the community, computational thinking ability and innovative consciousness are essential procedure for people to learn. Computer foundation course is not only playing an important role in undergraduate general education but also guiding the students to develop their computational thinking. The paper analyses some problems existed in computer foundation teaching and proposes a new computer foundation teaching mode based on computational thinking. From aspects of curriculum system, teaching method and so on, the paper discusses some strategies in developing computational thinking. The practice showed that the new teaching mode is useful to develop students self-learning ability, innovation ability and the ability to analyze and solve problems.