The Practice of Application-Oriented Personnel Training in the Course of Information Theory and Coding

Abstract

The course of Information Theory and Coding is abstract and highly theoretical. To improve the teaching quality and meet the society demand for technical and applicable talented persons, this paper proposes a specific way to optimizing the class teaching content and designing experiments to connect theory teaching and application practice. The course teaching focuses on theories of discrete information sources and channels and their applications in modern communication system. For experiments, the entropy of an English article is calculated. Then the article is compressed using the Shannon coding and Huffman coding. An experiment on forward error correction coding is proposed, which combines coding theories with digital television broadcasting application. The two years’ teaching practice shows that teaching effectiveness is improved by the teaching content optimization, and student’s learning interest increases significantly through experiments. The curriculum can adapt to the requirements of application-oriented education.