Research on the Teaching Reform of Programming Courses Based on Robotics Education in High School

Programming is of great importance to the cultivation of computational\r\nthinking and logical thinking ability. However, the programming course in the\r\nmiddle school stage has been unpopular for years among most students. There are two reasons that contribute to\r\nthis phenomenon: First, teachers paid more attention to grammar teaching than\r\ncomputational and logical thinking; second, students perceived that the content\r\nof programming course was not important, and unrelated to actual situation, and not enthusiastic for programming course. Out of fear about debugging, students tend to have lower intention for getting good grades or attain programming skills. Under these\r\ncircumstances, this research introduced robot design and application into\r\nprogramming courses for students in high school, using robot teaching as a\r\ncarrier, and integrating the cultivation of logical thinking into teaching.\r\nCarrying out teaching practice and related research with robot education as the\r\ncarrier, this study succeeds in stimulating students’ sense of self-efficacy in the field of\r\nprogramming, cultivating students’ logical thinking ability, scientific\r\nresearch ability, and developing their scientific inquiry spirit.