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Experience of Science and Engineering Education and Teaching from Programming Competitions

Author(s)

Linlin Tang

Affiliation(s)

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Abstract

As an important carrier for measuring students' computational thinking and practical abilities, programming competitions provide a unique perspective for examining and reforming science and engineering education. This article explores the interactive mode of "using competitions to promote education, and using teacher competitions" to demonstrate the key role of competition activities in comprehensively improving the quality of science and engineering education and teaching. Competitions not only stimulate students' innovative motivation, but also force the teaching system to innovate in terms of cutting-edge content and practical methods; Meanwhile, systematic teaching can provide a sustainable talent pool and knowledge foundation for competitions, forming a positive cycle of mutual empowerment between teaching and competition. This article proposes a feasible implementation path: firstly, integrating competition driven modular projects into the curriculum system to strengthen algorithm design, system construction, and team collaboration capabilities; The second is to establish a hierarchical training mechanism of "basic popularization - top-notch improvement", which combines extensive participation and elite selection through elective courses, workshops, and inter school leagues; The third is to promote teacher development, encourage and guide teachers to feed competition cases and cutting-edge technologies back into daily teaching; The fourth is to build an open training platform, integrate online question answering, project open source and other resources, and support the cultivation of normalized abilities. Practice has shown that this model can effectively bridge the gap between theoretical teaching and engineering practice, and has important promotional value for cultivating new engineering talents with innovative spirit and the ability to solve complex problems.

Keywords

Programming Competition; Promote Education through Competition; Science and Engineering Education; Reform in Education; Cultivation of Innovation Ability

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