Abstract: With the accelerated evolution of the industrial revolution and the technological revolution, innovation has become synonymous with the new generation of the world, education innovation has become a hot topic. Programming education is a hot spot of practical education for computer students, and the implementation of the global digital strategy has given programming education a broader field of development. The main influencing factors of programming education are composed of policies, economy, culture, and their own ideas. In order to promote the development of programming education for computer students, school teachers and relevant departments also need to start from the students’ own point of view, and consider improving students at the same time of skills, it must also conform to the current development needs of the times, and consider whether the programming skills learned by the students themselves can adapt to the development of the times in the future. The paper focuses on the importance of new engineering construction, the current problems of programming education, and the reform of programming education. Thinking in several aspects, hoping to promote the effective teaching optimization of innovative programming education methods.

Key words: New engineering, Programming education, Role specification, Teaching optimization