Author(s)

Qiming Niu ¹, Haobo Lin ¹, Zhihong Ni ¹, Xiaoxue Ma ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Computer Teaching, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China

Corresponding Author

Xiaoxue Ma

ABSTRACT

In college computer teaching, teachers should not only pay attention to the teaching of basic knowledge, but also guide students to train their computational thinking. Therefore, college computer teachers should actively update their teaching idea, constantly innovate teaching methods, adopt novel computational thinking teaching methods, pay attention to the combination of basic computer knowledge and various application software, cultivate students' computational thinking ability and practical ability, guide students to think and explore at multiple levels, and improve students' information quality. In college computer courses, "the conversion between different bases" is a difficult and key point in teaching. Through discussion with other teachers in the computer medicine team, we realized the transformation from problems to computational thinking by using calculators and Excel formulas, and gave teaching examples. At the same time, Python programming is used to realize the deep expansion training of computational thinking from problems to codes. Through this progressive teaching method, the students' understanding of decimal conversion to binary is deepened and the computational thinking ability of medical students is improved.

KEYWORDS

Computer basis, Computational thinking, Decimal-binary Conversion, Python programming

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiming Niu, Haobo Lin, Zhihong Ni, Xiaoxue Ma, Hierarchical Cultivation of Computational Thinking Based on College Computer Course. Adult and Higher Education (2022) Vol. 4: 90-95. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2022.041313.

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