An Exploration of the Ecosystem of General Education in Programming

In the digital era, general education in programming faces the challenge of cultivating more graduates who have superior digital competence. To achieve this goal, the educational environment should carry out digital transformation. In this paper, we explore an ecosystem of general education in programming, in which teachers provide guidance and undergraduates are stimulated to learn. With the support of various information technologies, it integrates various teaching elements and provides an interactive learning environment with effective feedback. The deep teaching based on the ecosystem can spur the deep learning of students and cultivate students’ digital thinking, programming thinking, data thinking and design thinking. In the teaching experiments, the ecosystem has achieved a satisfying effect, which is based on Shuishan online system.