Course Reform for Developing Computational Thinking Ability of Tip-top Talents

Computational thinking (CT) ability is the basic quality of tip-top talents and an important index for evaluating the educational level of universities. With a deep analysis of content of CT ability, the computer course system is established, which is for developing the students' CT ability. By combining teaching practice, reform measures have been put forward in terms of orientation, teaching content and course assessment of programming course, which have obtained many teaching achievements. Index Terms - computational thinking, tip-top talents, development of ability, teaching reform