Design Of "Android Programming" Textbook For Colleges With The View Of Constructivism

With the rapid development of mobile-internet, the number of China’s smartphone users has risen year after year nearly to400million.The Android platform has been favored by the majority of mobile phone manufacturers and mobile developers because of its open source, low cost, easy to develop and other features. The demand of Android software developers in market is very strong. Therefore, more and more colleges and universities begin to concern on talent cultivation of Android developers.However, there are a lot of difficulties in this procedure; mainly are the lack of teachers and few applicable textbooks. Textbook as the main tool and reference in teaching, as well as an important guidance for learning after class, plays an important role. At present, the majority Android books are technical reference books, training books and tutorial of classic cases. Teachers generally consider that they are not suitable for the classroom teaching characteristics in colleges.Thus, it is necessary to design an Android textbook to meet the requirements of classroom teaching in colleges.With the perspective of constructivism, the design thinking of Android textbook has been proposed, and then, the "Android Application Development Tutorial",which suitable for classroom teaching of the Android programming entry-level tutorial, has been developed. Finally, the videos for demonstrating teaching process, some kinds of test and other related resources about textbook have been developed systematically.Firstly, on the basis of the analysis of constructivism deeply, we try to design textbook under the guidance of constructivism and raise the constructivist ideas about textbook, such as create situations in the teaching materials, concern on the relationship between the knowledge, and guide students to think and so on. So that the textbook is conform to the classroom teaching of Android, which has high practice, high applicability and high renewal.Secondly, according to the investigation and statistics of the characteristics of Android course, the learning features of college students and the characteristics of teaching in colleges, we put forward the design thinking of textbook. To meet the characteristics of Android course, we think we should make full use of synthetic cases; when designing the exercise, not only have the basic theoretical knowledge test, but also have the skills upgrading programming practice; when assessing the learning, we can let they cooperate together to complete the project. To meet the learning features of college students, we think textbook should have clear goals; focus on training the ability of self-study; provide the corresponding assistant resource, so the student can study independently by the resources with their own learning schedule. To meet the characteristics of teaching in colleges, we think textbook should provide the corresponding courseware, electronic teaching portfolios, the quiz bank and other teaching resources, so that we can save the time teachers prepared for the teaching; build the platform for exchanging the learning experiences, so that the students, teachers and designers of textbook can improve together.Finally, we designed the "Android Programming" according to the design thinking, including the teaching goals, the catalogue, the order of the chapters, and the case design in each chapter. After we have extensively investigated and analyzed the Android textbook existed in China and we have analyzed the difference between the normal books and the textbooks, we have pointed out the basic conditions that the college textbooks need to meet, such as the length of the textbook should be moderate, textbook should have clear study goals, and textbook should contain take-home exercises and so on. So we raise the Android knowledge system. According to the knowledge system and the relationship between the knowledge, and the degree of difficulty, and used frequency of knowledge, we create the outline of contents, which lists the knowledge and samples in each chapter in detailed, and marks which is required and which is optional. At the same time, it provides a reference route for reader how to read with the textbook. Then design the structure of chapter in detailed. Each chapter includes the objectives, knowledge structure chart, screenshots of the sample, overview, introduction of the knowledge, overview of the sample, analysis of the interface, analysis of program structure, display of key codes, notices, questions and discussions, summary and after-school exercises. Then we describe the content and the function of all these aspects in detailed. Then we take the fourth chapter as an example shows the detail information of design in each part. In addition, we show the construction of related resources in briefly, including the teaching courseware, electronic teaching portfolio, teaching videos, test bank, comprehensive practice samples, and sum up the application of these resources briefly.Since "Android Application Development Tutorial" textbook and related resources published, they have been selected as teaching materials in several colleges and universities in Jiang’xi province and have also been favored in part of academies in other provinces, while attracting a lot of users’attention online, and leading some colleges and universities to offer Android-related courses. Many teachers and students reflected that the textbook is practical and lucid, easy to understand, vivid and readable, it is especially suitable for university teaching and entry self-study. The research carried on the useful exploration on the design of Android textbook, proposed a feasible research scheme of Android textbook. The research productions can be used as reference for college Android teaching, save the teachers’ preparation time, so that they can focus on the classroom organization and teaching activity design, it has strong practical application value.