高校文科VFP程序设计教学改革的探索

VFP Programming Teaching Innovation in the Liberal Arts of Universities and Colleges

Visual FoxPro(VFP)是微软公司开发的一个面向对象的、可视化的关系数据库管理系统,是很多高校文科学生学习数据库应用与面向对象程序设计的必修课程。VFP课程理论与实践联系紧密,如何使学生达到能开发数据库管理信息系统的教学目标是计算机教师面对的课题。该文分析了课程的主要内容及教学难点,对VFP程序设计实践教学内容的设计、案例教学法的应用以及结构化查询语言SQL的可视化教学方面做了有益的探索。实践证明,该探索取得了良好的教学效果。

Visual FoxPro（VFP） is an object -oriented and visual relational database management system, which developed by Microsoft corporation. It＇s a required course for many liberal arts students to study database application and object oriented programming in many colleges. Theory and application relate closely in VFP. How to make the students achieve the teaching goal of developing database management information system is the subject that the computer teacher is facing. The main contents of the course and the teaching difficulties are analyzed. This paper does useful researches and trials in terms of teaching content design of VFP, application of case - teaching method and visual teaching of structured query language （ SQL）. Practice has proved that good teaching effect has been achieved.