计算机网络教学中Python对学生计算思维能力培养的探索

Exploration of Python in Computer Network Teaching for Students’ Computational Thinking Ability Cultivation

Python语言简洁高效,应用广泛,特别是在人工智能领域,能够让学生有更多精力关注问题的建模与求解,进而有效地提升学生的计算思维能力。如何在计算机网络课程教学过程中利用有限的课时开展基于Python的网络编程教学和实验,以提升学生的计算思维能力,是一个教学难题。对此,本文借鉴翻转课堂模式,提出了“课前自学+课堂讨论+论坛反馈+上机实验”的授课模式,能使学生有效地理解网络通信的概念和原理,掌握Python编程并实现分布式网络应用。

Python programming language is having more and more applications in both industry and academia recently,especially for the field of artificial intelligence,due to its simplicity and efficiency.It can also guide college students to focus more on the modeling and solving process of their interested problems,which can effectively promote the capability of students' computational thinking.However,how to make full use of the limited class hour in the computer network class to teach students to learn Python and network programming is a quite challenging teaching problem.To handle this issue,borrowing ideas from the flipped classroom teaching mode,a novel teaching method named as "self-study before class + discussion in class + forum feedback + network programming experiment" is proposed in this paper,which can help students understand the concepts and principles of computer networks more deeply while mastering Python programming and implementing some simple distributed network applications.